True Notebooks

...we would assume that what it was we meant

would have been listed in some book set down
beyond the sky's far reaches, if at all
there was a purpose here. but now I think
the purpose lives in us and that we fall

into an error if we do not keep
our own true notebook of the way we came,
how the sleet stung, or how a wandering bird
cried at the window ...

~Loren Eiseley

(Found at the beginning of True Notebooks by Mark Salzman)

I want to reread True Notebooks. Don't think I actually want to buy it to keep it, but after teaching here, think it'd be refreshing.

I wonder how much I keep my true notebook. I keep my notebooks. What I put in them is true. But I also leave out stories. Hopefully they get caught somewhere so that I can remember the full expierence of life here.