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Keeping a journal allows us to capture the days and moments as they speed by, celebrate our lives — our families and friends, our pets, travels, observations and more — create a lasting record you will treasure forever. I often use my journals as a timeline to help me remember what year we went to the desert first, or when I saw the first pileated woodpecker and where, or what that little Italian restaurant in Parkville looked like.

Your journal can be as simple or as elaborate as you want to make it — some artist’s journals are works of art in themselves! Yours can be that, or a place to make quick sketches and studies, or even a place to integrate all the pieces of your life — mine contains grocery lists, phone numbers, business cards and more, along with my sketches and paintings.