I don’t feel like writing anything about today. How about I go downstairs and pull out my box of journals from storage and see what I was doing on January 28th sometime in my life?
Oh, look, here is my red suede journal from 2001 and there is an entry for January 28th.
Sunday, January 28, 2001
Doing well…
Working on patience with my children
Working on keeping the television turned off
Working to be more well-read in many books
Family is doing a marvelous job reading the B of M every day
Children going to bed earlier
The laptop works
Richard is supportive of seminary
Scripture study and lesson plans [for seminary] are good
1 degree off flight plan [makes] 1 mile difference for every 60 miles travelled (sic).
A flight plan parallels the mortal experience– am I on the right course
Punctuation and spelling are irrelevant to me in 2001. I was teaching the New Testament in seminary that year. I think that flight plan stuff came from a talk by President Gordon B. Hinckley. Incidentally, in 2001, I thought his last name was spelled, “Hinkley”. All of my seminary handouts carry the incorrect spelling.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
–Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)