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yeoldenews:
A sincere request from someone who has spent her entire adult life wishing people had kept better records…
In the coming weeks and months… RECORD WHAT IS HAPPENING.
Start a journal, take photos, keep a video diary, make a daily blog post, jot a few notes down in a day planner, whatever!
It is not very often that you can be certain that you’re living in a time that historians will study in detail.
The nightly news can tell us the facts, twitter can tell us the larger cultural trends, but no one can keep an accurate record of your daily life and honest thoughts during this crisis but you.
Are you scared to death? Write it down.
Are you still thinking this is being blown out of proportion? Write it down.
Are you still being forced to work and are pissed as hell about it? Write it down.
Did you see someone do something kind that made you smile? Write it down.
Is your grocery store completely out of toilet paper? Take a picture.
Is your normally bustling neighborhood eerily empty? Take a video.
Did you see a really funny plague joke on twitter? Write it down so you/your grandkids and/or future historians can have a laugh.
I have never successfully kept a journal in my entire life, but I’ve been keeping one since the 10th. Nothing fancy. Just a summary of my day in quarantine, what my family’s up to, today’s news and my current thoughts.
Even if it’s only for you to look back on this time honestly, without the bias of hindsight, you won’t regret doing it.
Future historians will thank you.
_________
I’m going to do this today– I’m going to dig out my failed bullet journal and go back and piece together what we’ve been up to and what my family’s doing and reference the county health department’s Twitter and such, and put together a coherent record if I can. Most of what I’m directly doing is boring, but I think my timeline will be interesting to reference later.
I’m envisioning in about thirty, forty years or so one of my sisters’ grandkids having a project and Great-Aunt B being able to swoop in with my Plague Journal primary source, LOL.
yeoldenews:
A sincere request from someone who has spent her entire adult life wishing people had kept better records…
In the coming weeks and months… RECORD WHAT IS HAPPENING.
Start a journal, take photos, keep a video diary, make a daily blog post, jot a few notes down in a day planner, whatever!
It is not very often that you can be certain that you’re living in a time that historians will study in detail.
The nightly news can tell us the facts, twitter can tell us the larger cultural trends, but no one can keep an accurate record of your daily life and honest thoughts during this crisis but you.
Are you scared to death? Write it down.
Are you still thinking this is being blown out of proportion? Write it down.
Are you still being forced to work and are pissed as hell about it? Write it down.
Did you see someone do something kind that made you smile? Write it down.
Is your grocery store completely out of toilet paper? Take a picture.
Is your normally bustling neighborhood eerily empty? Take a video.
Did you see a really funny plague joke on twitter? Write it down so you/your grandkids and/or future historians can have a laugh.
I have never successfully kept a journal in my entire life, but I’ve been keeping one since the 10th. Nothing fancy. Just a summary of my day in quarantine, what my family’s up to, today’s news and my current thoughts.
Even if it’s only for you to look back on this time honestly, without the bias of hindsight, you won’t regret doing it.
Future historians will thank you.
_________
I’m going to do this today– I’m going to dig out my failed bullet journal and go back and piece together what we’ve been up to and what my family’s doing and reference the county health department’s Twitter and such, and put together a coherent record if I can. Most of what I’m directly doing is boring, but I think my timeline will be interesting to reference later.
I’m envisioning in about thirty, forty years or so one of my sisters’ grandkids having a project and Great-Aunt B being able to swoop in with my Plague Journal primary source, LOL.
