The Red Quote Book

One of my Facebook friends seemed so surprised that someone else said they were putting her quote in their quote book, that I wanted to share pages from my first complete quote book.

I was inspired to create a Quote Book when my daughter gave me a red hard-bound book with blank unlined pages for my birthday in 2000. That is the kind of book I favor for my journal writing because it lends itself to either writing or drawing. My daughter included a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front page. Since I was preparing to move out of state, I thought I would follow her lead and collect quotes from people I was leaving behind as well as those I would meet. It took about 4 years to fill the book. Some people drew pictures, others wrote poems. I added a lot of art work. My favorite medium used in the book is crayons, but I also have a variety of colored ink pens, pencils and markers that I used. The book is unconventional in that there were no rules. I told people that they could write on any page in any direction and so that is how it is. I will post a few pages at a time. Here are the first few.

New Purpose

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Today’s Quote

Bad Spellers of the World

UNTIE!

I want this blog to be my online journal now. It’s going to take some getting used to, considering I have a cedar chest full of handwritten journals. Favorite Aunt Caroline gave me my first diary on my 13th birthday so I would have a refuge from my 2 older brothers and parents as I discovered teenage-dom. My first journals are all words. Later, they evolved from stream of consciousness writing about my daily life and events in the community to more creative ways of communicating on paper. I tell the truth about life as it happens, along with emotional commentary, dreams, jokes, random thoughts, etc.


I am embarking on a more public expression now. I started this blog because I wanted to share a booklet I researched and wrote called The Grandparent Book of Names. After a year of informal surveys, I compiled the list and chose the grandmother name, “Mimi.” Then, my Blogspot went through a series of purposes: a place to collect my poetry, a record of our family’s name songs, an occasional random thought, and most recently I added Photo Essays. My blog has evolved organically. Like all good learning, it is built on experience and action. Now this will be the place to share my thoughts, photographs, poems, and more for anyone who wishes to read them. I am no longer the same girl who was voted Most Secretive by her college roommates!