voices from the past

I just finished up another project for the book and am preparing to start the next. I've been playing with fabrics along with paints in the last one  and will for this project too as well as photo and memorobilia from my parents, and extended family. Leafing through all this stuff always brings up so much love and longing, a deep ache of missing in my heart. I'm grateful for the fabrics when I'm opening up all this emotion inside of me, I find them so comforting to work with.

Much to my surprise I found an old journal I had written in, first entry 1976, my first year out of high school. I didn't even know I had a journal from that time period, I thought it may have been destroyed in one of my "purging the past" episodes where I just ditched photographs and writing to find a fresh start. (I could kick myself now for doing that!) So this is really a gem and eventually I will bring myself to read it and newly discover the person I used to be 34 years ago. In that same box I found an old Konica camera that belonged to my mother, film still it, over 10 years old. 

The photos have kind of a dreary quality, I apologize for that but the weather actually is dreary so it's accurate. I'm sitting under my SADlight as I write this - I always look forward to that intense hit of brightness. Wishing you all a beautiful and bright weekend!

Comments

[AscenderRisesAbove]

this sure caught my attention. i have my childrens old school papers and dont want to destroy them; want to preserve them in some way but not in the usual ho-hum manner.
It would be fascinating to read thoughts from so long ago.

[Jeanne]

Your handwriting reminds me of mine - before i became more pressed for time and a little sloppier. (Or a little more creative ... who knows?) Finding old journals is fascinating stuff. The poems that inspired us, the trivial problems we had then (trivial to whom?), and all that teenage angst. I think I'll go get my old diary and do some time traveling.

[Susan Tuttle]

What a special treasure! Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season Katie!
xo

[Jeanne Levy]

Can you have the film developed to see if there's any hidden treasure? You never know if the images still might be salvagable. Enjoy your "light" today! The days are getting longer!!