#diaries — Public Fediverse posts

How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/13/whitman-emerson-criticism/

The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/12/audre-lorde-despair/

Tony Wilson dead: Hot Chocolate star’s son reveals ‘staggering’ secret diaries after his death at 78

Hot Chocolate singer Tony Wilson has died aged 78 (ITV Archive) Hot Chocolate singer Tony Wilson, best known…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #diaries #ErrolBrown #GB #PatrickOlive #TonyWilson #Trinidad #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/554958/

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/19/walt-whitman-specimen-days-meaning-of-life/

Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/08/kafka-diaries-self-doubt/

“The #PillowBook” by Sei #Shōnagon and a #Spiritual #Message for 2026 #spirituality #Japan , #literature , #AI - #reviews , #diaries , #presence , #aesthetics , #beauty , #attention
https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-pillow-book-by-sei-shonagon-and.html

“The #PillowBook” by Sei #Shōnagon and a #Spiritual #Message for 2026 #spirituality #Japan , #literature , #AI - #reviews , #diaries , #presence , #aesthetics , #beauty , #attention
https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-pillow-book-by-sei-shonagon-and.html

“The #PillowBook” by Sei #Shōnagon and a #Spiritual #Message for 2026 #spirituality #Japan , #literature , #AI - #reviews , #diaries , #presence , #aesthetics , #beauty , #attention
https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-pillow-book-by-sei-shonagon-and.html

Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/

https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-diaries-of-evgeny-schwartz-as.html The Diaries of Evgeny Schwartz as a #Spiritual Lesson for 2026: The #Individual and the #State #spirituality #diaries , #Russian , #soviet , #literature, #internalémigré , #allegory, #fairytale, #testimony

William & Mary: Students digitize Black women’s history, one diary at a time. “[Mia] Hunt is one of a dozen W&M students contributing to the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP), a multi‑year effort led by [Professor Jennifer] Putzi to transcribe, annotate and digitally encode the diaries of 19th‑ and early 20th‑century African American women. The project will debut online in October […]

William & Mary: Students digitize Black women’s history, one diary at a time. “[Mia] Hunt is one of a dozen W&M students contributing to the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP), a multi‑year effort led by [Professor Jennifer] Putzi to transcribe, annotate and digitally encode the diaries of 19th‑ and early 20th‑century African American women. The project will debut online in October […]

William & Mary: Students digitize Black women’s history, one diary at a time. “[Mia] Hunt is one of a dozen W&M students contributing to the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP), a multi‑year effort led by [Professor Jennifer] Putzi to transcribe, annotate and digitally encode the diaries of 19th‑ and early 20th‑century African American women. The project will debut online in October […]

William & Mary: Students digitize Black women’s history, one diary at a time. “[Mia] Hunt is one of a dozen W&M students contributing to the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP), a multi‑year effort led by [Professor Jennifer] Putzi to transcribe, annotate and digitally encode the diaries of 19th‑ and early 20th‑century African American women. The project will debut online in October […]

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/10/thoreau-friendship/

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/16/keith-haring-journals/

A Bonne and Children (1821) by Mary Browne, from The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/95c494c5-b264-45be-b263-e928e6288053

#diaries #bonnet #france #books #french #children #art #publicdomain

Kafka’s Approach to Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gifts

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/15/kafka-diaries-self-doubt/

Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/11/edward-abbey-live-die/

I'm recommending this #educational & #historical #documentary series.

[ On 8 May 2025, the world marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Allied victory brought an end to Adolf Hitler's 12-year rule. Journal entries from Hitler's supporters and opponents offer insight into life in #Nazi #Germany.

This four-part documentary series centers on eight individuals and their families. Each kept a #diary recording their daily lives, experiences, thoughts, and feelings. Illustrations accompany the entries to bring them to life, giving these sequences the look of a graphic novel.

The eight diarists lived scattered across Germany. They came from different socioeconomic backgrounds, religions, and #political factions. Some become fervent supporters of the Nazi regime, others opposed it, and some were marginalized or persecuted. Several of the journal span the entire 12 years of #Hitler 's rule. But some fall silent after a given time. "Hitler's Reich - A German Journal" features no expert testimonies; instead, the #diaries stand alone, as personal records of the time in which they were written.

In the entries, we find descriptions of moments of happiness, youth, dance lessons, longing and love; but also of the first - still hesitant - Nazi salute, #Gestapo surveillance, "Aryan certificates," hunger, and the threat of deportation. They capture a time when many looked the other way, remained silent, or became complicit. They speak of what it felt like when the war "came home," the fear of nights spent in bunkers, and the hope of survival. The diarists wrote with the urgency of the present, not knowing what tomorrow would bring. Their stories reflect the rise, reign, and eventual downfall of the Nazi regime.

Hitler's Reich - Diaries of Nazi supporters, opponents and victims (1/4) | #DWDocumentary.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fDWYc8vTvEw

#Fascism #Dictatorship #geopolitics #WWII

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/01/anais-nin-on-reading/

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/01/anais-nin-on-reading/

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/01/anais-nin-on-reading/

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/01/anais-nin-on-reading/

Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/01/anais-nin-on-reading/

📖 Num capítulo do livro "Sociedade, Emoções e Sentimentos", Pedro Urbano usa o caso de estudo do diário da marquesa de Fronteira (1801-1860) para fazer uma proposta de abordagem metodológicas para o estudo da história das #emoções.

🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto aqui: https://lab2pt.net/publications/2024-sociedade-emocoes-e-sentimentos

#Histodons #WomenInHistory #WomenWriters #Diaries #Emotions #HistoricalMethods #OpenAccess

@troublewithwords @samuelpepys

A deeply interesting set of entries, isn't it.

Here's an old Guardian piece about the same episode:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/sep/21/highereducation.classics

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp10904/claire-tomalin

#Pepys

#ClaireTomalin #diaries #biographies

[EDITS: added hashtags to reference Claire Tomalin, Pepy's biographer and the source of the old Guardian piece, and a link to portraits of her in the National Portrait Gallery. Claire Tomalin was born in 1933 and is still alive.]

Part of the Funeral Procession (1821) by Mary Browne, from The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/43e32067-0f8a-415a-81fb-bd9d7d6bb8da

#diaries #france #french #mourning #processions #rituals #art #publicdomain

Taken on Friday, 25 July, 2025 at 17:39 with Samsung Galaxy A05s at Talawaan Village, Talawaan District, North Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #july2025 #2025stories #2025story #selfie #selfies #myselfie #myselfies #theendoftheyear #endoftheyear #endofyear #newyear2026 #year2026 #stayconnected #stayintouch #diary #diaries #mydiary #mydiaries #journal #journals #myjournal #myjournals #life #mylife #memories #mymemories

Taken on Friday, 25 July, 2025 at 17:39 with Samsung Galaxy A05s at Talawaan Village, Talawaan District, North Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #july2025 #2025stories #2025story #selfie #selfies #myselfie #myselfies #theendoftheyear #endoftheyear #endofyear #newyear2026 #year2026 #stayconnected #stayintouch #diary #diaries #mydiary #mydiaries #journal #journals #myjournal #myjournals #life #mylife #memories #mymemories

For those of you who are like me, stay that way. Writing diary or journal is very healthy, mentally and physically. I want to live a long, long time, and I want to keep track of my life. Whatever it is, happy or sad, it must still be written down. Always be honest.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #july2025 #2025stories #2025story #stayconnected #stayintouch #diary #diaries #mydiary #mydiaries #journal #journals #myjournal #myjournals #life #mylife #memories #mymemories

For those of you who are like me, stay that way. Writing diary or journal is very healthy, mentally and physically. I want to live a long, long time, and I want to keep track of my life. Whatever it is, happy or sad, it must still be written down. Always be honest.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #july2025 #2025stories #2025story #stayconnected #stayintouch #diary #diaries #mydiary #mydiaries #journal #journals #myjournal #myjournals #life #mylife #memories #mymemories

My diary at the end of this year is not complete yet, I still have to fill it in. I wrote about you too on my diary, my friends. Keeping my life history, for me, is very very important. I always try to be as detailed as possible, even though sometimes I focus too much on one or two things in a page

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #july2025 #2025stories #2025story #stayconnected #stayintouch #diary #diaries #mydiary #mydiaries #journal #journals #myjournal #myjournals #life #mylife #memories #mymemories

My diary at the end of this year is not complete yet, I still have to fill it in. I wrote about you too on my diary, my friends. Keeping my life history, for me, is very very important. I always try to be as detailed as possible, even though sometimes I focus too much on one or two things in a page

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #july2025 #2025stories #2025story #stayconnected #stayintouch #diary #diaries #mydiary #mydiaries #journal #journals #myjournal #myjournals #life #mylife #memories #mymemories

I don't know if you actually read my posts, or even if you ever read them, but I'm always honest in every post. The year 2025 is almost over, only a week left as of this post, don't forget me in the year 2026. We have to stay connected, stay in communication, stay in good relationship.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #july2025 #2025stories #2025story #selfie #selfies #myselfie #myselfies #newyear2026 #year2026 #stayconnected #diary #diaries #mydiary #mydiaries #journal #journals #myjournal #myjournals

I don't know if you actually read my posts, or even if you ever read them, but I'm always honest in every post. The year 2025 is almost over, only a week left as of this post, don't forget me in the year 2026. We have to stay connected, stay in communication, stay in good relationship.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #july2025 #2025stories #2025story #selfie #selfies #myselfie #myselfies #newyear2026 #year2026 #stayconnected #diary #diaries #mydiary #mydiaries #journal #journals #myjournal #myjournals

Water-Woman (1821) by Mary Browne, from The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821.

Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2eb7f772-d841-4df0-91fd-2e1092090c94

#diaries #france #french #occupation #buckets #art #publicdomain

‘I awoke at ½ past 7’
Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the #Victorians are to blame

https://aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation

#142holdheap #diaries #selfhelp #history

The Journal (Ireland): University of Galway publishes digital archive of hand-made Long Kesh journals. “A NEW DIGITAL archive of prison journals created in Long Kesh internment camp during the 1970s has been made available by University of Galway. The university has published a digital archive of journals and photos from the Maze Prison from the mid-1970s. It was provided with the journals by […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/08/the-journal-university-of-galway-publishes-digital-archive-of-hand-made-long-kesh-journals/

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/hidden-diary-samuel-pepys

#HackerNews #TheDiaryofSamuelPepys #History #Diaries #SamuelPepys #HackerNews

Brooklyn Rail: Carolee Schneemann’s Digitized Diaries. “[Carolee] Schneemann was a life-long documentor and kept diaries and scrapbooks dating back as early as 1951, now all part of Stanford University’s archives. Following the five year embargo period on their use, the first thirty-six volumes in this collection (1951–78) are now fully digitized and available to view online, providing […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/brooklyn-rail-carolee-schneemanns-digitized-diaries/

If health and life permit, I will soon blog about the #DigitalScholarlyEdition of 📓 #diaries and manuscripts by Norwegian adventurer and anthropologist-dilettante #OscarMamen.
Mamen travelled to #Mongolia 🇲🇳 in 1911 and witnessed the revolution of 1911, the rise and fall of the Bogdh Khanate, the revolution of 1921, the establishment of the Mongolian People's Republic in 1924, and the so-called Nankou Campaign in 1937, during which the Japanese occupied China's north-eastern region.
Stay tuned!

https://www.alojapan.com/1224717/reigning-world-champ-masanosuke-ono-of-japan-commits-to-penn-state-wrestling/ Reigning World Champ Masanosuke Ono of Japan commits to Penn State Wrestling #black #Champ #commits #diaries #FrontPage #Japan #JapanNews #masanosuke #news #of #Ono #penn #PennStateWrestling #reigning #shoe #state #to #world #wrestling Hardly 36 hours after posterizing the NCAA tournament record books, Penn State Wrestling picked up one of the most both unlikely and impressive recruiting commitments imaginable. A 20 year old Masanosuke Ono wa…

https://www.alojapan.com/1224717/reigning-world-champ-masanosuke-ono-of-japan-commits-to-penn-state-wrestling/ Reigning World Champ Masanosuke Ono of Japan commits to Penn State Wrestling #black #Champ #commits #diaries #FrontPage #Japan #JapanNews #masanosuke #news #of #Ono #penn #PennStateWrestling #reigning #shoe #state #to #world #wrestling Hardly 36 hours after posterizing the NCAA tournament record books, Penn State Wrestling picked up one of the most both unlikely and impressive recruiting commitments imaginable. A 20 year old Masanosuke Ono wa…

1/3 • Из дневника Энди Уорхола:

...Немного поработал, а потом, в одиннадцать вечера, мы с Кэтрин поехали в «Режин», чтобы взять интервью у Майкла Джексона из группы Jackson 5. Он сейчас сильно вырос, но голос у него действительно очень высокий. С ним пришёл какой-то здоровенный парень, может быть, телохранитель, и ещё девушка из мюзикла «Виз». В целом, ситуация была весьма странной , потому что ни Кэтрин, ни я ничего... #citations #Warhol #MichaelJackson #diaries #celebs #artstars #1970s

Could I BE more tired?

New vlog is up!

Watch here 👇

https://youtu.be/GY2ODEmW8nc?si=ulePHFecGYAD951y

#vlog #youtube #burlington #diaries #workout #yoga #therapy #anxiety #depression #ocd #ptsd #fatigue #chronicillness #thyroid #healthjourney #roadtorecovery #unstoppable #loveandhugs #canadiangirl #jenniesworld

#auswitch Jan 27th #memorial_day #niewieder Pleas make a note in your #diaries.

@mjohnharrison

On #journalling.

Thank you, #MJohnHarrison, for this note. Always taking the surprising and liberating side angle.

"It’s a relief that writing can, once again, at some point in every single day, switch suddenly and unprompted away from the production of fiction (or public commentary upon it) and into private commentary on absolutely anything."

#diaries #reading #writing

Simple Pleasures

Mefi member nightrecordings is asking for "recommendations for memoirs and personal diaries written by people who made a conscious choice to live a more ascetic life, and in turn discover how to better appreciate simple, but meaningful, pleasures," and the Ask Me crew is coming through!

https://ask.metafilter.com/378663/Stories-About-Choosing-a-Simple-Ascetic-Life

#ascetic #books #diaries #journals #memoirs #recommendations #SimpleLife #SimplePleasures

“The ordinary man constructs & worships an ideal which he calls God or hero according in the image of the phantasm of his vanities.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2023/12/14/the-ordinary-man-constructs-worships-an-ideal-which-he-calls-god-or-hero-according-in-the-image-of-the-phantasm-of-his-vanities/