I just completed the last page of my current journal, whose first page was written Nov. 9, 2020. Before I put the book away, I perused back through it.
On the very first page, I had written the definition of the word pedantry, which means an excessive concern with minor details. A good word for a journal keeper, I wrote.
Here are a few other insignificant details and thoughts I wrote to mark the passage of the days.
The estimated number of insects in the world is 10 billion billion, according to David Attenborough’s book Life on Earth. He also wrote that an ancient split in the ancestry of fish means humans are more closely related to a cod than a cod is to a shark. Hmmm?
A coxcomb is a jester’s cap.
In this day and age, doubt is the only way to read social media. Duh.
Socrates lived from 470 to 399 B.C. and yet already understood that we are all in this chaotic mess together.
You can use your knuckles as a memory aid to remember what months have 31 days. You learn something new every day.
It is a shame everyone else is an idiot.
More than two dozen cars got towed because their owners ignored, or didn’t get, the memo that our apartment parking lot was being repaved.
Today, December 21, is supposed to be the shortest day of the year. But I see that the sun came up and went down at the exact time as yesterday.
The first Amazon Kindle came on the market in 2007, and sold for $399. I love my Kindle.
My good Tucson friend, Jean, was exposed to Covid. She’s a teacher. (P.S. Two weeks of isolation from her, but she didn’t come down with it, and now we both have gotten the vaccine)
Get over it. Just do it.
“Let me live, love and say it in good sentences,” – Sylvia Plath.
And with that said, I think I will now go start a new journal.
Pat Bean is a retired journalist who lives in Tucson with her canine companion, Scamp. She is a wondering-wanderer, avid reader, enthusiastic birder, Lonely Planet Community Pathfinder, Story Circle Network board member, author of Travels with Maggie available on Amazon (Free on Kindle Unlimited), and is always searching for life’s silver lining.
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