Life is Good--Journal is the best way to retain the memories

I am still plugging away and happy to share my thoughts and happenings on my blog. Look at me, here I am almost retirement age and still going strong mentally and physically able to do so much. I feel a blessing upon my head to be fortunate enough to still "keep body and soul together.." as Betty Mc used to use that expression from time to time.

I want to share a couple of thoughts about journaling.

I happened to find an old diary in my storage. It was given to me about fifty years ago! It was a gift from one of my grandmother's, Anita. It was a five-year diary too. I paged through it the other day and intended to share a couple of thoughts or several even several.

I laughed to myself, since I write so much now, but I must have had a lot to say to make note of at the time. My daily entries consisted of infatuations, babysitting jobs, or a few social outings I enjoyed in Jobie's, aka Jobe's Daughters. It was comparable to Young Women's. It was my only social outlet, since my father was very protective of me at that age and my social life. I don't fault him for that either, now anyway.

It gave me an opportunity to interact with other girls my age and I had good supervised activities. We went to the movies in downtown Los Angeles, the Graumann's Chinese Theater, and saw the Cecil B. DeMille, "The Ten Commandments." That was on a huge screen on a 70 millimeter projector. That was a big deal in those days!


Jobie's trip to Catalina Island 1958

One memorable trip I went on was a boat ride across the Twenty-six miles to Santa Catalina Island in 1958. I was chaperoned on this trip by Goma, my maternal grandmother. She was quite active for her age, and as I see now, she was not that old, only 58 years old in 1958!