So many writers have to taken to the page to transcribe their daily thoughts, to reflect and preserve, to vent, to articulate, to understand, to create. Diaries and journals can be a way to write your life into being and a place of comfort and joy. Always the diary is a humble companion on a journey, whether you are traveling out there in the world or not. Here are few of my own humble moments from my travel diary in Liguria, Milan, Siena, London, France…

And now these thin volumes hold a moments of joy, gratitude and promise.

Some of my diaries I have kept and some I have thrown in the fire place, it turns out if you write journals for thirty or more years that they are going to take up some space. The only ones I have really hung onto are my travel journals, obviously I would never want to erase them in any way, but I guess I have realised over time what a great resource they are…. And I think another beautiful layer of the travel journey….