response to on keeping a notebook

I do agree with Didion that keeping a notebook or a blog is a sense of keeping in touch. Being that this story was written 40 years ago though, I would have to say that I think a blog today would be slightly different than the notebook that Didion was referring to. In today's society there is so much chaos and movement that many people don't take the time to stop and notice their surrounding's. In the essay, Didion would write about conversations she heard to help her remember those times if she read them in the future. I'm a guilty one. I would have to say that if I wrote about my day and read it a few years later, I probably wouldn't  be able to picture that day nearly as well as I would have hoped to. Reading the essay makes me want to be that person who stops to really look around and takes in everything around her and figures out a way to remember it. I don't personally blog by writing, I keep more of a photo blog of what I've done with my kids and to share with other members of my family. I feel that many people keep photo blogs of what they've done, especially with the technology that is available.