| December 31, 2001 End of the Year
Well, I'd planned to do a year in review entry this
weekend, or at least by today. But last night when I went poking through my entries for
this year, I just found myself unable to gather all of it together in one entry. It's
giving me a headache to try. So I'm not going to do that this year.
I know that at least part of my problem wrapping my brain
around this year is how to talk about September 11. I think many of us will always
remember 2001 as the year of the terrorist attacks, rather than the first year of the
(real) new millennium. It's not that I can't talk about what happened that day -- goodness
knows I wrote enough in my weblog, journal, and paper journal about it this fall -- but
it's hard to see how to talk about it in relation to the rest of my life. I think this was
the first time a public event ever made itself felt in my private life so thoroughly.
The other thing was, I started looking back through my
entries for this year and found that by and large they were on topics that I wasn't
interested in revisiting. Maybe this is a shift in my own style of journaling, or maybe
it's just a result of the things that I experienced this year. For instance, this summer
marked a period of intensive personal growth for me, and I kept a very thorough
paper journal during that time, but there's nothing in there that I feel like writing
about now. I did it; it's done. I reap the benefits of that hard work every single day,
but I have no desire to revisit the process now.
I guess in the end I'm just grateful to be able to say
hello to 2002. Best wishes to all of you for the coming year. Thanks for visiting
Raspberry World. Enjoy your new year's celebrations, and stay safe.
~ Susie
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