Dug Coal. Rained.: Introducing a New Character

Lynn and the kids went to Coshocton while I went to church (where I was in charge of the kids class) and J & A found a painted turtle in the creek who is now our new pet -- GB. The rest of the day was spent grading, cleaning, & shopping.

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When Lynn found her great grandfather's diary, many of the entries read:

Dug Coal. Rained.

I suppose if my world demanded such work in such conditions, I too, may have grown terse.

On the other hand, the artificial imposition of Two Sentences A Day seemed like exactly what's needed to satisfy my yearning to archive the daily flow of life.

To bookmark particular sensations and experience.

To leave a scar that I can return to be assured that I really was alive back then:

My life really did happen.

So for the last year I wrote two sentences a day.

These days I'm re-reading to see whether the archival urge and the reflexive urge together can do anything to heal my soul or shed insight across a tiny sliver of the world...

Dug Coal. Rained.

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