2005 Book Exchange - a gift of words and more

[Doreen Peri]

Hi all...

LR and I were each given a lovely portfolio journal for Christmas.

The journals have a black leatherlike binding and a 100-150 page pad of blank paper in them.

I had an idea last night I wanted to share because I'd love to see other people do this. I thought it would be cool if he took his journal and I took mine and we both wrote in it all year long without showing it to each other. Poetry, prose, letters, whatever. Thoughts. If we did this while keeping in mind that the goal would be to complete the book by the end of next year and exchange them, giving each other the books we wrote. We could also include other things in attached to the pages of the book... like memorabilia - you know, like ticket stubs, show programs, cd inserts, whatever items we think might document the year well and speak our hearts to each other.

I read on another board that two old friends who never see each other do something similar and I thought it would be a great idea to try.

Have any of you done anything similar before? Do you know anyone you'd like to try this with? How about US? You could create a journal type book for 2005, then a year from now, scan some of the pages and post them here for us! Whaddya think?

Hurry! Times running out! The new year's about to begin and this should be a book entitled "2005".

Go!

[judih]

the only journals i ever kept are from the year i came to israel in 1978.

In more recent times, i embarked on Julia Cameron's (Artist's Way) morning pages about 5 or 6 years ago and it was then i discovered my propensity for illegibility.

no one can read my writing. i manage only if i re-capture a spark of the mood in which it was written - so, i'll have to decline your offer of writing something for next year's exchange.

However, i'll be an interested reader. The project sounds good.


judih