Revisiting: What does "journal as altar" mean?

On romanticizing one's life, with intricacy, amidst absurd turmoil

When I created Journal As Altar in 2020 (I think it was 2020??), I was fascinated and invigorated by the idea that I was treating my journals like altars: pages as tributes to all that is good and reflections on what is hard - and everything in between. The mundane to the magnificent, elevated to creative exaltation on the pages of all my books. A record of the fabric of my life and the world around me: archives, hopes, future plans, accountability to my values and my people, what new things I’m learning, questions I’m asking, the best memes, which songs on repeat, what I wore in a day, which politics are trying to destroy us (they can’t and won’t), how I am acting to make the world a better place, who on the internet made me laugh. And, just as important, a creative practice that is therapeutic, comforting, inspiring and generative; the process and the finished pages equal allies.