On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
Joan Didion reflects on the personal and introspective nature of keeping a notebook, delving into memory, self-reflection, and the significance of past experiences.
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In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.
A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their “things,” their totems.
Easily, quietly, Suicide Day became a part of the fabric of life up in the Bottom of Medallion, Ohio.