A fruit can be thought of as an outside part and an inside part. The inside is the "meat" or the "flesh" of the fruit. The outside is the "skin" or the "peel".
Sometimes we have an intense experience. Outside, the weather, the sights and sounds, and memories combine to give a total experience greater than the parts. Or we put together two ideas to come up with a third. The experience, the new knowledge, can be overwhelming.
We search for some way to contain the moment, to collect it in a vessel.
By journaling, we put the skin around the meat, we create a cup to hold the wine.
Without a journal in hand to write in, we can feel exposed, purposeless, just another object in the world buffeted by forces of nature and of the intellect. With the ability to write and reflect, we gain control over creation.
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