5 Minutes Of My Day - Joy can be found in the mail.

I had forgotten the joy that comes in receiving a letter, happy mail through old fashion overland mail.

Today I received happy mail from one of my crafting partners on Junk Journal Canada Facebook group. 

 There is just something very special in reading another’s thoughts through their personal handwriting.  

Receiving small handmade gifts made just for you.  

Being acknowledged in this way just cannot happen on the internet.

As I sit here I am reminded of a series of blog posts I made in 2013 and I realized I need to take my own advice and once again start to write to my grandchildren, nieces and friends.

How do you feel when you receive handwritten notes in the mail?

Here are the links to series of blog spots if you are interested.

 Revive the tradition of letter writing to your children like F. Scott Fistzgerald 

Teaching The Joy of Receiving & Writing Notice 

Teaching the Joy of Receiving & WritingLetters Gratitude 

Writing Letters Hope to Children 

Teaching the Joy of Receiving Letters and Writing 

2017 Getting sunflowers from my beloved

2016 Watching our grandchildren play soccer

2015 Doing our part for the planet and walking to the grocery store

2014 Making hollyhock dolls with our granddaughters

Grandma Snyder

© twosnydergirls 2018

Writing is as necessary as breathing for some

Writing for some of us is as necessary as breathing. 

Writing as a form of self discovery, spending time everyday writing down thoughts uninhibited by checking spelling, grammar, sentence structure or who will read it in the future.

Virginia Woolf was the pioneer of this type of writing - stream of consciousness writing. 

She wrote this way to discover her characters, writing to understand them better.

Today writing through stream of consciousness is also called brain dumping and it is described as a great way to begin your day and other say it is a great way to end the day and clear your mind for sleep.

What I know is that writing is necessary and I have been keeping a journal for the past 50 years, and through my writing I have come to know myself to be the person I am.

Hello Me 

Beginning of a New Year

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2018 twosnydergirls  

Bullet Journal

Late in June while looking through my Facebook feed I came upon a post about bullet journaling.  

Hayley had posted her new weekly spread and as an avid journaler I was very interested.  Hayley directed me to the Bullet Journal.com once there I watched the introductory video and was convinced that I was going to try bullet journaling.

The founder of bullet journaling has Attention Deficit as I do and he set about developing an analog system to keep track of anything he/you might want to.  

As I age the digital tracking systems I keep are getting less and less effective as I am tracking more and more things.

 I was getting lost in all of the things that I am tracking!

Next I started following bullet journalers and found that doodling, writing practice, cursive writing practice, water colours, art, conventional journaling and anything you might write/draw on paper.

Back in the 1980’s I started putting indexes in my journals because I started to write down things I wanted to remember, to track - bullet journaling fits well into how I organize my ideas and thoughts.

If you are interested take a look at the bullet journal website and if you are interested by a journal, look around and start writing.

As the website states Bullet Journaling is

“The analog system for the digital age”

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2016 twosnydergirls