Why do you or why might you keep a journal? There are many reasons you might keep a journal. Perhaps you are interested in personal growth, gaining new self-awareness, making a life decision, finding greater clarity, or want to improve your health with journaling. Â It can be so helpful to know "why" you want ... Read More >>
Our IAJW members are from all around the world with a wide range of experiences with journaling. Our Member Spotlight Interviews are a way to shine a light on our amazing members and to learn from their stories and journal writing tips. I am honoured to introduce to our featured member this month, Kalpana ... Read More >>
IAJW Member Spotlight Interview with Genevieve Chye Our IAJW Member Spotlight Interviews are a way to introduce our amazing members within our global journaling community to our Museletter readers and to fellow journal writers worldwide. Every journal writer has their own unique experience with why and how they journal. These interviews are intended to share ... Read More >>
This is a beautiful example of journaling in nature. Â It is also an example of how journaling can become poetry, and how meaningful self-reflection is possible through stories and words... Heron - James Bay, Prevost Island by Duncan Elsey A heron skims the calm grey water, chasing its own reflection across the mirror flat surface. ... Read More >>
Whale Breath by Peter Allan In my previous role as a kayak guide for 15 years, I was fortunate to experience chance encounters with whales on the outer coast of Vancouver Island and also in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. To be floating in a small watercraft designed many thousands of years ago to hunt sea ... Read More >>
Summer comes Wedged between the sacred cycles Of Easter and Advent. Summer comes in the liturgical calendar. Of Ordinary Times, the Ordinal, marking of a different kind of sacred. Summer comes like the pool of a lake, Stretching forth without ritual To greet the stars that meet the dawn. Summer is not like spring – ... Read More >>
By Peter Allan Since boyhood, reading the story of the famous Mutiny on HMS Bounty in April of 1789 has held me enthralled. The exoticism of course and the descriptions of paradisal Tahitian islands, the Tahitian people and the women in particular, the islanders’ customs, all have had an abiding interest for me. The shear power ... Read More >>
People who know me hear me talk of Turkey a lot and observe me searching out Turkish shops, cafes and the like. It sounds as if I travelled to Turkey earlier this year. I have talked about going back to Turkey, specifically Istanbul, but I was actually first there in the spring of 1998. That’s ... Read More >>
How to Journal for Creative Mojo By Catharine Bramkamp Lose your creative mojo? Hunting around for the next big thing? Journaling is a great aid in facilitating the creative process. Here are a few journaling methods that will get you from mired to inspired! Challenge: You have run out of ideas Solution: Journal about how you’ve ... Read More >>
This is a powerful time of year to use your journal to set your goals, intentions and highest hopes for the new year and new decade. I am not much for New Year's resolutions, but rather I like to nourish a regular journaling to manifest practice all year long. The cusp of a new year ... Read More >>