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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Wreck it Wednesday: Wreck This Journal Updates

From the Preface: 
Warning: During the process of this book you will get dirty. You may find yourself covered in paint, or any other number of foreign substances. You will get wet. You may be asked to do things you question. You may grieve for the perfect state that you found the book in. You may begin to see creative destruction everywhere. You may begin to live more recklessly. 







Maybe I should have colored the outside of the book BEFORE I started to wreck it? What a silly idea!


Re "four-letter words": I decided that words were going to be positive, for the most part.

Write a list of more ways to wreck this journal.
 
1. Drive a car over it.
2. Take out to target practice/shoot it up.
3. Burn a few pages/use for kindling.
4. Decorate pages to make bookmarks, leave in library books.
5. Turn a page into a postcard, mail it "return to sender.'
6. Cut a page into a snowflake.
7. Put a page into an auto three-hole punch and make a pattern.
8. Mark a page a cosmetic rendering of your face.
9. Create a treasure map, antique it.
10. Mark an autograph page.
11. Have a conductor on your train, "click" a page (aka punch like your train ticket.)*
12. Use a page as a fan (folded up)[like an accordion].

*Each of the MetroNorth conductors have different shapes on their ticket punch. It would be fun to have a collection on a page.

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