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ALL OF THE WORDS found within this Journal section are a compilation of thoughts written during the
windjamming of Thom Buras, the creator of both this website The Wayƒarers Journal and the books by the same name.
With his return to the
Journey On, Thom has directed those of us here designing and building this web site, to inaugurate his first online journal. Further, he hopes to keep this online journal available throughout his entire life journey.
(b1-20160530.0750) Pounding keys at the Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone, Wyoming.
Too, when the current journeys of the author have advanced sufficiently, he intends to use content from these online journals to compile a series of digital novels available here on this website. In spite of time and other restraints, his desire is to eventually create paperback versions of each novel which would be available through online printer and/or bookstores. In this endeavor, only time will tell.
Both his travels and this online journal he is writing is the source material for the journeys of the seven wayfarers.
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The seventh journey will be the story about how each come to arrive back at Sabbath Day pond when the seven meet again and find out that all are part of the brotherhood of the Wayfarers, having all come to have the same hope to be in the paradise that God will soon bring to this earth.
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This online journal serves the same purpose as previous handwritten journals, that is to provide a media whereupon this wayfarer may write his thoughts and observations down as oft as he is able to do so during the Journey.
Albeit a daily record, this Online Journal serves an added purpose, which is to allow this wayfarer to share these thoughts and observations with those of his family and friends who would wish to read his writings.
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Too, along with other question, some may wish to learn of the progress of my journey, where I am, where I have been and just how am I getting along. So, in an effort to answer these questions and keep all of my dear friends current as to my whereabouts and experiences, it is my desire to provide entries to this journal and thereafter publish it to my web site frequently.
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The Journal On
Paper
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A BOUND PAPER JOURNAL, also known herein as a quire, is the instrument of choice for a wayƒarer traveling aƒoot, because it neither requires batteries, signal, nor any other technology.
Instead, to accomplish the purpose of providing the means to record one′s daily thoughts and life experiences, all else that is needed is a quill.
To a wayƒarer, journal writing is never tiresome but instead becomes an integral part of that one′s wayƒarering.
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From Words Written in his Journal.
"On this icy first day of March of 1978, I begin climbing Springer Mountain. This summit climb also begins my quest to walk on the path which I hope will eventually lead me to Katahdin, the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
"From this day forward upon this ƒootslog I will write down the record of this passage beginning on the pages of my first quire. As the days, weeks and months slowly pass by, I will continue to record my thoughts and experiences in successively numbered quires."
The first five of the many handwritten quires have been used to develop the first story, Episode One from the journeys of the seven wayfarers.
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The Quires
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LONG BEFORE the inception of computers and digital phones, the writing tools of choice by a wayƒarer would be the
quill and the
quire. In fact due to the high cost of film and photo processing, often, the only record of his passage would be by journal entry or artwork.
Within the pages of his quire, a wayƒarer would make daily entries including both his thoughts and observations from his Journeys.
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However, what he record within those several quires composed during those journeys contained so much more, including: the names and hometowns of the unending list of people he crossed paths with; the campsites, shelters and secluded locations he overnighted within; the countless amazing view points where at he would linger long hours, the rivers he meticulously forded; and the detailed information about the numerous peaks he would summit.
It was only after walking all day, after setting up camp, after cooking a meal, eating, and when everything else is done, that his journaling would begin. Often, a candle must needs be burned to provide the light. However, journaling with a quill is not the only journaling a wayfarer does. When the quill journaling is complete while the wax is still burning, another journal is taken out and read from. Yes, the Bible is also a journal, one which a wayƒarer will read from often, even daily.
The Passing of Time
For nearly thirty years the many words handwritten upon Tommy Michel′s quires lay safely treasured in a locked chest hidden in the attic of the home where he had been reared. Now these same words, written during the days of his youth have come alive once again, at least for the wayfarer as he reads through page after page now yellowed with age.
Yes, it was nearly three decades earlier, on that icy first day of March in 1978, he began his quest to reach Katahdin by climbing Springer Mountain.
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Rewriting the Quires
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From that day forward on this quest he writes down the record of that passage beginning on the pages of his first quire. As the days, weeks and months passed by, he continued recording his experiences in successively numbered quires.
Twenty-five years after that inception, on the anniversary of that day, he begins anew with his journey by writing this story of a bygone part of his life. Thus, the wayfarer would read from the pages of his handwritten quires and then write down the words of each day of Episode One simultaneously as it occurred on the same day twenty-five years earlier. The writing was done in this manner so as to have the sunrise and sunset during this time occurring simultaneous as they originally occurred on the days the words were first penned. The result of this way of writing was totally unimaginable!
When he arose with the din of birdsong at dayspring and when going to sleep at evenfall, it gave him the sense of reliving that long past adventure. His attempt of writing the story in this manner also succeeded in unlocking an abundance of untold, unwritten and long forgotten memories from the wayfarer's journey two and a half decades earlier, many that were not written down nor even remembered until this very year.
Yes, a handwritten quire has inherent power indeed!
Since that day, the first of seven Episodes has become available online as a free digital download from The Wayƒarers
Store within TWJ Books section.
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Journal writing does much more than just providing a written record, in fact, journaling can help the journaler to be creative, grow personally, set goals, relieve stress, fulfill the ancient axiom know thyselƒ, expose weaknesses, improve health, become organized, create new words, master the ability to create hidden messages, find life enrichment, leave a permanent record of one′s life and important dates for posterity, even acquire a semblance of inner peace and tranquility, and this is truly the short list.
When a person, any person, begins journaling, it should become a practice to write in the journal every day. Only then can the above benefits be obtained, in fact, the list of benefits the journaler my realized is unimaginable.
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