Journal Day 1, June 29, 2011

Wow, so I have to write a journal entry every day and it has to be at least 300 words long. I also have to write journal entries in another class and they have to be 200 words long at least. The first time I sat down to do a journal entry, I thought 200 words was like running a marathon (26 miles). How was I ever going to find enough to say to make an entry of 200-300 words? Turns out, it is really more like running a 5k race(3.1 miles) and not nearly as exhausting as the marathon. Seems like I am hardly out of breath by the time I am done. (No I am not a runner, just like the analogy.) The journey to any destination begins with a single step and any journal entry begins with a single word. And then another and another and another and before I know it I have filled up two or three pages with words.I guess I have more to say than I realize. I was really going to do my first journal entry on my credo, but I was having trouble accessing the resource link so I will try again tomorrow. Alright, now I feel like I am at a red light, jogging in place, waiting to move forward. I need to try to just keep writing, after all isn't that what freewriting is all about? Just writing anything as long as I am writing. That has to be my favorite reading assignment so far. Before that, I thought writing had to have a meaning and now I know that writing can just be that, writing. I really prefer walking to running, but I walk really fast. Running is just too hard on aging knee joints. Ha! Ha! I just told on myself. I have begun to accept that it is ok to grow old, and I hope to remain active through all my years. I recently heard about a woman in her 90's that ran a marathon and she didn't run her first one until she was over 80! How is that for inspiration. If she can accomplish that, than I can accomplish 7 journal entries a week. I just hope they start to flow a little better and maybe I can actually stay on the same subject for 300 words. I really wish the blog posting had a word count like my word perfect program. That way I wouldn't have to sit here and count every word by hand. I think I am reaching the bottom of the page, so I should be about done. I checked out the journal prompt link and found some interesting things to blog about, so I am going to sign off for now and I hope to have something intelligent and interesting to say tomorrow and the next day and the next day. Oh, and I  am starting to harvest from my garden. Nothing in the world better than picking something, washing it and eating it knowing exactly where it came from. Except for my cabbage which I guess I fed to the bugs. That's OK, everything has got to eat, including the bugs. Just wish they would have saved me some. They did make some pretty patterns in the leaves as they were munching away. I never did see them, but I think I heard them say thank you once or twice. Hey look, I reached the end of the page, only took about 15 minutes. Not bad.