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Carve your initials on a tree, imbed your footprint in the fresh cement of a new sidewalk, paint your name on a rock, blaze the trees as you trek through the woods, blog your inner world into the big air or write in a journal.

Journal writing is all about making marks, landmarks, Markings (as Dag Hammerskjold’s journal is titled), in order to give life significance, to survive death or to testify to the passage of a sensitive life in a world so large that whole civilizations can disappear..

You may write in a journal thinking you will want to look back and see where you’ve been so that you don’t keep rotating in circles. Or maybe you are just letting the other bears know you are in the woods.

Henry David Thoreau wrote thousands of diary entries as a consequence of casually being asked by Ralph Waldo Emerson if he [Thoreau] kept a journal.

Surprisingly, the journal as a blog is making a huge revival.

Instead of the old Christmas letter, I had several friends and relatives send me links to their blogs where they had great Christmas letters with pictures of their kids and holidays laid out in surprisingly professional layouts. So much better than chewing your way through the old grocery list of their activities that I have received in the previous years.