Last week 6 of the Journey Daybook volunteers returned to the Florida Women’s Reception Center near Lowell, FL for a Journey Daybook Alumni Adventure, “prison-style. “ The Warden and Director of Education gathered all but one of the inmate alumni for our 3-hour follow-up session. (Sadly, Morgan was sick.) It was wonderful for all of us to be together again, to catch up with our evolving lives, to quietly make journey daybook pages together, and to share our work with each other.
We received the encouraging news that several of the inmates had completed all the pages of their hand-make journey daybooks. It was a happy, affirming, moment for us when we realized that the JDB Process is being regularly practiced by these women who, by their own statements need and relish solitary, reflective time. They definitely find this time in the pages of their journey daybooks. For us, this development means that we need to make many more books – service work that we will gladly do!
The photos below show our group as we assembled and worked on August 11th. You can see some of the journey daybook pages on the on this blog’s journey daybook page.
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