Reflections on the value of recording our inner lives…

…from Woolf, Thoreau, Sontag, Emerson, Nin, Plath, and more. by Maria Popova on BRAINPICKINGS

I would not be who I am without Journaling: now on volume 65, 8898 pages to date–and that, only from 1987. I destroyed two earlier collections, the oldest from 1959 when I was 18.