Catching Fireflies

By Mattie Fern Worrix

Mattie Fern Worrix has kept an almost daily journal since she was twelve and began scribbling her secrets inside the pages of a tiny diary that had its own lock and key.

She has taught journaling classes for many years at community centers and senior centers too.

Why keep a journal? There are many reasons--like clarifying your thinking and connecting with your heart--but most of all, keeping a journal is just plain fun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mattie Fern Worrix
• Release date: Oct 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215818749

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Copyright Notice

Copyright 2022 Mattie Fern Worrix

All Rights Reserved

This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This book is a revised and updated version of the writer’s self-published book previously sold on eBay beginning in 2011.

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"Shut up and write anyway.

Don’t use anything as an excuse."

Natalie Goldberg

CATCHING FIREFLIES

Capturing The Bright And Shiny Moments

of Your Past and Present on Paper

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.  Nora Roberts

When I was a kid I scribbled my secrets inside the pages of a tiny diary that had its own lock and key. I even named my diary Maria and wrote letters to her. The Sound of Music was popular then.

I wrote about a bazillion big and small things in that diary, like that magical summer in 1969 when I walked to the neighbor’s house a half-mile away (since we didn’t own a television at the time) with my dad and brother to watch the Moon Landing. I also drew and colored little hearts all over the pages with felt-tip pens,  and wrote about my first head-over-heels crush.

Now, as an adult, why keep a journal? Why bother to record the daily stuff of your life?

To remember. And to capture the magic.

To remember what it was like to kiss Del Kendall at the homecoming dance. How his soft lips tasted like Bazooka bubblegum and sent a sweet shiver up your spine. To remember your Grandma Perkins and her stories of growing up as a young girl in the hills of Arkansas. To remember her snuff tins and silver spittoon, and how she smelled of rose-scented toilette water.

Writing about your life is a gift--to yourself and to others, too. Writer Nadia Boulanger wrote, Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows, or trying to write a masterpiece. Keeping a journal helps you pay attention.

How do you begin?

You can journal on your laptop of course, but there is nothing wrong with