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BAUK'S BOOKS

A Micro-Journal by T. S. Bauk

Below you will find my journal. I journal as a means of self-expression, born out of a need to process my thoughts and experiences and a desire to feel heard.

You'll see short, daily entries. I make these entries in order to build a habit and maintain a practice of journaling. I do this to build mental health, heal past wounds, treasure old memories, celebrate moments of beauty, and create my understanding of myself and my world.

You will also find entries categorized as FFR (ForFutureReference). These are ideas I have that I may want to explore or revisit later. These are scraps that I may weave together someday into an insight, a practice, or a project. Or I may forget them and move on from. I leave them here for now, just in case.

I don't intend to seek an audience, but if you have found this site, feel free to explore. Sift through my memories. Weigh my ideas. Take what is useful and leave anything that is not to your liking.

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THE MICRO-JOURNAL OF T. S. BAUK

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July 21 Daily Entry -- Ghosts

There was the same woman on her way to work, the back of her hair teased up, looking worried. There was a tall skinny man I had seen...

July 20 Daily Entry -- Be Part Of

You are part of the universe. You have all its resources to draw from. You will never run out of energy because you don't need to rely...

July 20 Daily Entry -- Happy to Be Here

Today in the way to the park I saw a corgi, and remarked to myself that the best thing about corgis is that they always have this same...

July 19 Daily Entry -- Message from the Trees

You keep asking for help. What do you need help with? Everything is fine, and there is no struggle. You only imagine the struggle. Stop...

July 19 Daily Entry -- True Souls

Everyone is walking around with their own world inside their head. Their worlds may be very different from each other. They are living a...

July 18 Daily Entry -- My Plant

It looks strong enough this morning. I tend to its roots. I let it bathe in the wetness of nature. I show it all the other plants, just...

July 18 Daily Entry -- Rain

It's rainy today, and the park is wet. Some of us are here anyway. Everyone who is here today is here for their own purpose, but it...

July 17 Daily Entry -- Growing the Self

I am growing myself and my love for myself as if it is a plant. It is a tender baby plant, grown from a cutting, fragile roots just...

July 15 Daily Entry -- Resolution.

I stood in a dark, windswept field -- the kind I always picture when the Bronte's discuss a moor -- and I looked down into a hole. Inside...

Jule 15 Daily Entry -- Conversation with the Cosmos

I sat beneath a tree (Gordon) and talked to the Cosmos. "Help me," I said. "What help do you need," said the Cosmos. "I am afraid," I...

July 14 Daily Entry -- "spirits"

Perhaps what some people call spirits is just the quality of things. And perhaps they have unseen qualities. Yesterday I sat by the...

July 14 Daily Entry -- To the Greater Cosmos

I call out to you. I deserve to be seen and heard. I am a small part of you, but a part nonetheless. And you are the larger part of me. I...

July 13 Daily Entry -- Desert

We have built ourselves an inhospitable desert. Cliff and canyons where nothing grows, and people carry on without nourishment. No wonder...

July 12 Daily Entry -- Morning

It is beautiful to go out in the early morning on summer vacation at the beach. First the earth welcomes you. The breeze caresses your...

July 11 Daily Entry -- My multitudes

First I tell my body to be calm. I breathe in and out. I imagine sparkling rain washing over me, washing the tension from every part of...

July 10 Daily Entry -- Four Ravens

Four ravens light in a park by the bay. They perch under an old, deeply rooted tree, apart from the people who shout and the dogs who...

July 9 Daily Entry -- Tomorrow

I will wake up tomorrow and it will be 1992. I will be in second grade. I will go to school. I will see the parents and teachers full of...

July 5th Daily Entry -- Without Meaning

"Of course it does," said Other Jane. "You must be looking at it wrong." "It started so predictably," said Jane. "It started like all the...

June 18 Daily Entry -- Tree

I am no longer becoming someone. I am. I am no longer the main character on a journey. Now I am a tree. I have taken root. I produce...

June 13 Daily Entry -- Nothing

Nothing is true. Nothing is permanent. You have no secret to tell me because there is not secret. There are only moments, many of which...

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WHO AM I?

Thoughts from Inside My Lair

I'm not a naturally consistent journaler, but I have built the habit because I thought it would be a useful tool to strengthen mental health, to express myself, and to explore my own ideas.

To get myself journaling consistently, I came up with the idea of micro-journaling according to a set of guidelines developed to take away the intimidation I felt every time I tried to start a journaling about. (You can read about that here.)


And if you would like to journal, but need a little prompting, consider subscribing to my "nudge" service. Subscribers will receive a daily email prompting them to journal and offering a question, prompt, photo, or other springboard for thought.

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