Happy Friday, 🙋♥️ guys. Scary how one week of my break has elapsed already. Yikes. ⏳ Some of you know I’ve been working on a book project for my uncle. He kept a diary for roughly 60 years. In 2010, he typed a lifetime of ✍️ handwritten notes into a computer and scanned a ton of photos dating back to the late 1800s. 🖥️ There were details about being put into internment camps during WWII, and other hardships the family endured. Not surprisingly, they ended up being successful in everything from family to fortune. 👨👩👦 👨👩👧👧👵👴 I’ve been reading through the printouts and marking up hundreds of pages of single-spaced text. 📝 Lots of the entries have been repetitive and boring, but there have been some moments that just about ripped my heart out. 💔 It’s a gift to have this legacy that goes back to the time of my great-grandparents' journey 🚢 from Japan to the U.S., 🇯🇵 🇺🇸. Most everyone in the family is at least mentioned at some point. So finishing this project will be meaningful to many of them. Some of his diary entries include personal information. If I kept a diary 📖 I would probably self-censor some things, even if the audience is family. 👁️ Or is that revisionist history? What do you think? 🧠 Besides many days of editing, there have been persistent problems with images 🖼️ and their placements throughout the manuscript. 📑. It’s like a puzzle to get things properly sorted out. After I do, I'll begin for the third time to design and format everything. 👩💻 As I approach the final 40-page editing stretch, it’s really changed the way I imagine I’ll design it. 💡 ☺️ It’s going to feel great to complete it. 🍾 Have you ever agreed or offered to do something for someone, then regretted it? Did you get out of it somehow, or did you grit your teeth and persevere? Pictures: #manholecover #totempole #pergola #pioneersquare #PilchuckGlassSchool #LondonPlane (again, @flaviabisi) #leschielementary playground #solak #pixelperfect #pixelphoto #pixelphotography #flowers #flowerstagram #flowersofinstagram #prayerrug #turkey #pioneersquare #madrona #seattle (at Pioneer Square Totem Pole) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1icax_AZoT/?igshid=1nwykerl1rzls