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1990s

Writing to learn, and writing to understand what the learning is

by Jan on November 25, 2009

I’d like to share a story with you. It starts kind of sad, but the ending is very joyful, very jubilant: In 1995, I bought a beautiful plain notebook with a specific intention. I’d always been a note-taker, a list-maker, but this was quite different. This journal was to be my companion as I sat [...]

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Old friends

by Jan on August 13, 2009

Is this my time to turn away? Bask in the warmth of now and turn my back on history? I was angry, I was always enraged. You, in all your guises, brought me relief. But now, with you or thinking of any one of you and the way you still do not respect me (and [...]

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Mother – an end and a beginning

by Jan on July 14, 2009

My mother died in 1995. I was with her in the last couple of days of her life and I kept a journal. I think that was the first time I ever used writing as a tool to get me through a difficult situation. Later that year  I started the journal about my life which [...]

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