Database 5.0

Posted by beth on June 30, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, today I inaugurated the fifth in my line of Databases. Now, to the uninitiated in the ways of the Database, it appears as though they are just journals. But friends, that is where many are mistaken. These are not just journals or notebooks, not just pieces of paper bound together with glue or spiraled wire. They are records of my entire life. They contain thoughts and reflections like any good journal, but they also contain everything else. Recipes, article ideas, rough drafts, driving directions, to-do lists, notes from church, notes from professional development workshops, letters that will never be delivered, photos, drawings, rockin’ t-shirt designs, lesson plans, the list goes on…

It always makes me happy to begin a new Database. It’s like New Year’s. You get to start fresh knowing everything you learned with the previous Database and excited to start again with the new one. I was so excited about this one that I wrote it a letter telling it as much. I wrote it in the Database, of course. DB5.0 and I are going to have SO many grand adventures together! And it’s perfect because it has a world map on its cover. Granted, it’s in French, about 300 years old, and only of North and South America, but still. By the time our journey comes to an end, DB5.0 and I will have explored so much more of the world that he might decide a new graphic is in order! That’ll be up to him, though.

Oh, it is exciting indeed.