I guess that it is time to go back to keeping daily journal entries.  It has been quite awhile since I committed myself to this task, about two years now.  A great deal has happened since then.  I’m certainly not going to recount the activities in this entry, but I do want to eventually write about my happenings over that span of time.  I just need to figure out the process for doing it.

Part of that process also involves a full accounting of my happenings.  When I say “full”, I mean full.  Part of my goal in keeping this journal is to lay out as much about myself for you, the reader, as possible.  I would like to have some way of putting my life’s jigsaw puzzle together, from birth on.  To date, I haven’t found a sufficiently user-friendly process to do that.

I thought of myself as a decent writer.  As with any talent, if you don’t use it you lose it.  Because of my lethargic attitude towards writing, I have completely lost the abilities that I once had.  I have little regret about it, because the priorities which took the necessity to write over are noble ones.  Besides, completing a piece of literature of sufficient proportions, like a book, is extremely difficult.  Several other things would have to be put on the backburner to accomplish such a laborious task.  I feel that the blessings of doing something like that would not justify the sacrifices of other, more important, priorities.

And this is a big part of why I am writing in a journal.  In the past, I kept scribblings of daily thoughts and accountings on paper.  The longest stint in keeping a journal was as a missionary in Brazil.  That lasted for the better part of my two-year mission.  Beyond that, I never really succeeded in keeping a journal for a long period.

Now, I am grateful to have found an internet-based computer application that will facilitate my keeping of a journal, WordPress.  WordPress is quite a gem to have found, as it automates much of the mundane tasks I did before.

Prior to this, the online presence of my journal was there due to a lot of daily effort exerted.  I had to construct the journal entry, link it within the navigational structure of the rest of the journal, link it to a calendar, and then upload the changes to my website.  WordPress does those things and so much more, all online.

Still, I wish to keep a hardcopy of my online journal.  I’m not sure why I would like to do this.  Perhaps I still don’t trust the fluid nature of the digital bytes I’m making, thinking that they can evaporate into nothingness at an instant.  Or, perhaps I still harbor some desire to write something like a book and a paper journal, albeit one of meandering thoughts and musings, which would quench that thirst.

Whatever the reason is, I’m searching for a viable process to transfer what I write online to paper and have it be in a format that is organized and easily-understood.