19-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Tuesday, June 30, 1914: It seems to me that the month of June comes and goes like a streak. The day passed like other days. Quite a few of them are alike.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Grandma—
I agree! June has come and gone like a streak. (Why can’t January come and go like a streak? It always seems to go on and on and on?)
Grandma certainly practiced the economy of words, didn’t she? A thought occurred to me about this. Diaries, back then probably didn’t allot much space for each day’s entries, did they?
Grandma just wasn’t very wordy. She didn’t have an official diary. She just wrote the diary entries in bound lined notebooks–kind of like the kind that school kids used to have.
No kidding, we’re already into the ‘days are getting shorter’!
Diana xo
It’s a little depressing isn’t it that the days are getting shorter. 🙂
Yes it is! 😦
Oh yes, the winter days are long and dark!
It will be summer for you before you know it. And, winter here. In the meantime I’m going to enjoy every minute of our long summer days and evenings. 🙂
I’m sure the month passed so quickly, because Grandma spent much of it working so hard. And Morquie may have a point about the space in the journal. And that brings up a question (that you may have covered in one of your earlier posts): did Grandma write in an actual journal? When I was a teenager, my diary was written in stenographer pads!
No, she didn’t have an actual diary. She wrote the entries in bound notebooks–sort of like the school notebooks that I remember having when I was a child.
Helena’s right–long summer days seem shorter than short winter days!
I love these long days!
My January days pass slowly because there is less to do. In June, I have a lot tasks to make the time seem to pass quickly.
Time does go faster when we’re busy.
I agree with you both, there’s a lot of streaking go on in time-flying-zone. lol I hadn’t thought about it before, but you’re right, why doesn’t the cold months play nice and pass by as swiftly as the warm ones.
Winter is a good time for cocooning–but I like all the summer activities and events.
It is interesting that we still have the same thoughts these days about the summer days going by so fast 🙂
Some things never change. 🙂
Yep – felt like this June flew by. We had such nice weather – much better than May. Lets hope the summer does not slip by too quickly.
I’m already feeling like it’s slipping by too quickly. 🙂
🙂
It’s really lovely seeing these two photos juxtaposed.
I’m glad you liked them.
Only 90 minutes left as I write…
🙂 There’s still 3 hrs. left as I write.
I wonder if Grandma will be writing her monthly poem tomorrow (ooops I mean I wonder if she did write her monthly poem on July 1, 1914).
I’m impressed that you thought about the poem ahead of time. You’ll just have to wait and see. 🙂
I’m with you, Sheryl. And it’s a good thing February is a “short” month, because it seems much longer!
I agree. . . even though February is a short month, it can feel very long. 🙂
That’s a beautiful January photo that you’ve posted!
Thank you–I’m glad you liked it.