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Call for Support to include good news...
I thought it was a very good idea for Guido to introduce the idea of posting good news, too, in the shared journal: http://journals.aol.co.uk/pharmolo/call-for-support/ which has been featuring journalists who are coping with serious illness, losses and other conditions that need support.
The latest entry by peytonswater is headlined: "Happy News Apheresis Works!" What she means is a form of a blood donating that is even more affecting than the regular kind in providing for a blood bank. I am some familiar with this procedure because my daughter Ronda has the rare 0 blood type and has often been called to donate. She has not been donating for quite a while because she is going through the nursing program at ASU. In nurse's trainng I am sure she will learn even more about why donors like she is are so needed. But this journalist kept trying until she succeeded in giving blood this way. She got inspired by Kristy who writes Sometimes I think who was so good calling attention to the need for donors when her husband John was fighting cancer.
That is good news indeed. It made me happy just to read this new entry, because of her enthusiasm about succeeding in doing a good deed. I was also having trouble getting the add entry part of this journal so I could write one. I always signed in to aol, but found out that you have to sign in again to the top of the page on this journal in order to contribute. I don't even have to sign in again to write in my own journal! But I did sign in again at the top of the page and presto, the add entry came up! In case any of you have had the same problem.
I do think this journal can become more and more valuable in calling attention to journalists we think are in trouble and need extra support. And it will seem more balanced with some good news in there, too as Guido is also concerned with the Journal world seeming a bit down. Yesterday I went to his journal: http://journals.aol.co.uk/pharmolo/NorthernTrip/ to read his entry again and all the comments that have came in. I thought some had very good insight into possible reasons this could be happening. I and others thought that a long hard winter with unusual storm activity and cold and a late spring could be contributing. Everyone is looking forward to spring! Also some were quick to point out that rising gas, diesal, and food prices were causing more people to struggle and could not help but affect the journal world. I certainly think that is so.
I also think as a long time writer that people go through different phases in their enthusiasm for writing and may have to cut back on their journal reading as well so as not to neglect other important aspects of their lives. I know I was not able to get around to many journals for some time as so much energy and concern was going my ailing son Raymond's way. I was also worried about my grandson Dante. Recently I have had more normal amounts of energy to expend on journal reading and finding new ones.
I also think it is important to keep up with what the professional writers are putting out there, and read some really amazing books that can add a lot to life. The professionals can raise your spirits when you are down. A good book never fails me. I just got a biography about Louisa May Alcott who wrote "Little Women." So far it is extremely good. The younger journalists, some of whom work, too, must have a very hard time keeping up with everything, when I am retired and have trouble sometimes.
J-Land however has contributed so much to my life I will never give it up. I so value the friends I have made here and find myself becoming very attached not only to them but to their kids and whoever else they feature in their journals. I begin to love the terrain where they live and take such good photographs of. They make me laugh. They move me. I find myself writing about what the journalists say that so delights me in my family web site to share with them. I put links to extraordinary entries so they can go see and read, too My sister Ann goes regularly now to some of the journals. She has a screen name but does not do a journal, which I have urged her to do when she gets time, as she is an indefatigable writer. She says when the grandson she tends goes to school maybe. She is a severe diabetic due to the loss of her pancreas soshe must pick and choose her activities carefully.
Hooray for all the journalists who work to make J-Land a better place, especially Guido who has been outdoing himself lately. Fresh journal ideas are just what we need!
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I had read both of the afore mentioned journals. Both were indeed inspiring! A little good news here and there helps lift an otherwise saddened state of mind. (Hugs) Indigo
http://journals.aol.com/rdautumnsage/ravens-lament/
4/13/08 1:06 AM
Have a good night..
Pam