{"id":18875,"date":"2021-10-26T09:03:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/?p=18875"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:56:11","slug":"day-26-the-joy-of-writing-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2021\/10\/day-26-the-joy-of-writing-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 26: October Journaling Adventure with The Joy of Writing Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to Day 26 on the journey through The Joy of Writing Journal<\/a>. Here I share an excerpt from my journey and I hope you will share something about yours\u2014an excerpt, an insight, a challenge, a joy…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today’s prompt invites you to choose a favorite or least favorite room in your home. Then imagine a bizarre or humorous story happening in that room before you moved in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We moved into our house 21 years ago, when my oldest was three months old. Before we lived here, my husband’s grandmother lived here. And before that\u2014several of my current neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a funny thing about Saunderstown. When you move into your first home here, at least a half dozen neighbors will tell you about when they lived in your house, or played in your house as a kid, or summered in your house, or built your house and planted the trees! People may outgrow a house here, or downsize, or raze a house and plant a new one, but they don’t easily leave!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my journal for Day 26 I wrote about how the energy of our house changed over time as we reclaimed it for our own and made changes\u2014some big and some small. I’m a bit bored about what I wrote. I don’t feel any insights from it. I suppose I could just give myself a pass\u2014and that’s okay. But I’m thinking now it might be fun to imagine a few things that might have happened here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My mother-in-law Mimi, sons Will and Luke, and husband Tom on the deck with our weeping cherry and forsythia in the background about a decade ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n