Up: [[Introspective Writing]] Related: [[Patterns in Life Writing]] Created: 2026-02-22 I have started rereading my daily notes. I’m looking for patterns, for ways to code the notes so that Bases can pull interesting patterns forward for me. In every single note, I have a section for body. For years that has been me obsessing about weight and food choices. The details I so carefully entered about the candies I bought from Bulk Barn are so much noise now. They are irrelevant and uninteresting in their specificity. All that truly matters about those entries is the pattern they show of my struggle with sugar, and maybe the connections I have already figured out between candy and exhaustion, candy and perfectionism. Recognizing those patterns has already changed my journaling. Now, the body section is about the Body Groove dancing I’m doing, and the grounding, embodiment actions I’m taking. I can see my growth of understanding about my body, my shift from the superficial to the meaningful; the way that I am banking on and now really trying to live Eckhart Tolle’s quote that *When you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.* As my journaling changes in response to noticed patterns, my writing moves more in the direction of memoir. Journaling of any kind is a narrated self, but it is becoming deliberately more so. What I’m not sure of yet is if recognizing these patterns will mean that I will start working with old journal entries as if they were the raw notes of memoir. Will I add detail to the bones of some old entries? Will I delete what feels completely unimportant? Will I cluster some days and write the story of a week because the narrative will flow better that way than day by day? To know the answers to those questions, I need to keep reading journal entries and I need to continue the research for [[Patterns in Life Writing]].