# Five years ago today, I started journaling properly. I was still using WordPress at the time and reinstalled a private posting plugin I wrote a couple of years earlier but never used.
It took another three months to migrate that to the current site.
In that time I have written an average of 270 entries per year, but with some big gaps in places.
For the past month, I've gotten back in the habit of writing something every day, often just a recap of events, and it feels good to get this down. I've always thought of the blog as an external memory, but the journal is rapidly taking over that function as I blog less frequently.
Since I stopped using The Garden, the public/private duality of /reader has spread to the rest of the site — blog and journal. Different sides of the same coin, operating in similar ways. While it might seem like they have different purposes, they are more aligned than they appear with considerable cross-talk between the two.
The are just intended for different audiences.
