I've been recording dreams since I was around 10, and I am on my third book. I bought a huge tomb of a blank book and have been drawing images from my dreams in this one. Also, I have regular diaries, garden journal notebooks, short stories/poem books, technical drawing books, and sketchbooks. Sometimes I throw my complete books out or just rip out and burn pages till empty then toss, as its so private. I finally decided that I should preserve them all and gift them to my twin when I am dead so she can always have me with her when she misses me.
@TheCelestialhealer2 жыл бұрын
It never crossed my mind to look at someone elses diary. Fascinating for sure…I was inspired to buy the 5 year one as I have noticed cycles in my life too.
@cableclair7 жыл бұрын
What a great collection! Very exciting!
@lisarichards19567 жыл бұрын
I think I just love old books and diaries (and new sketchbooks) for themselves. I love to look at them on the shelf. As far as my own diary, like you said, I don't want to record statistics about the weather, illnesses and what I ate for breakfast. Rather, I save it for my deeper thoughts. Things that I feel might inspire and help my kids down the road when I'm gone. I hope I can get it all into one 300 page journal, so they don't feel like it's a ball-and-chain they have to carry around, but an easily wielded reminder of the mom who loves them forever and wants to leave some sage words to help them through life and on into eternity. :)
@claychick1006 жыл бұрын
This was so interesting Danny. I have my mothers and my brothers personal diaries. They are such treasures. Both have passed away so having these little recorded moments of their lives are very special. Love journaling!
@rgutierrez30707 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! I'd get lost in those for sure
@aslopez7 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this video. I found it very interesting and inspirational. I've kept an electronic diary on my iPhone via the Day One journaling app for the last 5 years and it has well over 3,000 entries in it and well over 1,000 pictures. I find the recording of my life for my son and his children to remember me by one of the best things I could ever do for them.
@lisarichards19567 жыл бұрын
That was a lot of fun! I guess I'd never thought to collect diaries and other old record types of books. I'll now be on the lookout for them.
@katiemanges85663 жыл бұрын
It's so funny to me how similar our brains are! I love collecting old diaries and snippets of other people's mundane lives but also keeping track of my own in various sketchbooks and diaries. I wonder what that means about us.
@SketchBookSkool3 жыл бұрын
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@stevecohoon38896 жыл бұрын
I've been collecting similar stuff for years. Thanks for the new insights.
@MsVanorak3 жыл бұрын
:( tell me you don't treat yours as roughly as he does - oh the thumb under the next qage so close to the sqine and slaqqing them shut all in a jumble :0
@barrywebb75797 жыл бұрын
Your video was very interesting and make me wonder what will happen to my journals when I'm gone. Keep up the good work!
@debsmclaughlin65217 жыл бұрын
Inspiring and very fascinating! Thanks! 😊
@angelreading50984 жыл бұрын
Your work is certainly inspirational,I am sketching this very moment,love every minute of it,thank you fore sharing your passions.
@angeltea77 жыл бұрын
Amazing. I loved this. I regret now the full sketchbook I decided not to buy at an estate recently. This definitely gave me something to think about. I wonder if that high school senior who recorded the leading up to war got drafted. What stories he must have had
@SerenaLewis7 жыл бұрын
Great video...loved the peek into the diaries of people from generations ago. SO interesting!
@emmacavillsketches4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, Danny. Thank you for sharing! :)
@andyrodriguez52115 жыл бұрын
Wow, great vid! As you say, making it meaningful keeps the habit and is the tell-tale sign into our identities!
@VeraNika19117 жыл бұрын
love your videos!thank you! greetings from germany)
@marielouiseweeksb33attitud332 жыл бұрын
You’d also love the Bayeux Tapestry ( in Bayeux France) about the Battle of Hastings…… how we (the Brits) lost 😆
@dez43137 жыл бұрын
I love these videos, this one especially. Growing up reading "Dear America" and "The Royal Diaries" shaped my outlook on journaling. I've tried a couple times to find other people interested in collecting other people's journals, but my search consistently comes up basically empty. I'm not sure if I'm somehow missing it, or if there really just isn't a community presence for secondhand journals. So far, Mr. Gregory is the only one I've found that actively collects them.
@SDW908084 жыл бұрын
Four minutes in... genius!
@allyravenhall2689 Жыл бұрын
February always becomes overwhelming
@tedbear24413 жыл бұрын
A Rilus Doolittle. came 3rd in the 5000m trials for the 1924 Olympics.
@shawshanewcomb61397 жыл бұрын
I would love to find an old sketchbook or diary at an antique shop or sale! I've never come across one.
@michelletulumello6617 жыл бұрын
I feel like we are really spoiled in today's modern society because we don't have to worry about the weather for the most part excluding the poor people in Houston right now. However I think back then they were deprived of central heating and had to work in the fields a lot and such and the weather even to travel to and from work or whatever was a huge issue. I have a diary that was written by one of my rancher relatives about 110 years ago and it was mostly weather.
@maryyeates63527 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your review on diaries
@prophet71124 Жыл бұрын
Danny did your mother make you wear that sweater vest when you were in the 5th grade? I think you should do some artistic replications about all the shame and teasing you had to go thru when all the other boys were wearing levi jackets and bellbottoms. I guarantee you my friend its gonna be a best seller!!!!! And I shall be the first one to buy your art. ROFL
@bajaboolie7 жыл бұрын
Have you considered using them as a backdrop to your own art? Would be interesting to use them as a sketchbook. I have mixed feelings about it myself. On one hand it seems almost blasphemous to "deface" history. On the other hand, they were given away to be sold to strangers. When you think about it, it is an interesting way to weave eras together. Thoughts?
@sutil50785 жыл бұрын
interesting reveiw, thanks, the "we are in war" mabye added by the seller... the ink color seems newer, and the lettering is written carefully and seperate, the lettering is somwhat different. to add dramatization and value to this little book. possible. funny even when people write full diary the review is just 2 min more than empty one. because they are not from a person that you know closely and or have a unique literary style and intersting comments. To be fair the people life sound less interesting because real news , falling in love, making big sum of money, deep critics about themselves, wont be recorded by them for privacy reason in most cases.
@forjazznjava7 жыл бұрын
Where did you find these?
@SketchBookSkool7 жыл бұрын
In Ye Olde Diarie Shoppe.
@marilynnkarbonski11163 жыл бұрын
I realize this is your channel and your opinion but I felt bad when you slighted people who just wrote about the weather. You are negating their life and the time and energy they used to write in their diary. If that’s what was all they could do or chose to do that’s up to them. You are glimpsing a moment of their life. One they never dreamed someone would read. Your criticism was not appreciated or fair.