Couples Red Journal

Journals from the Drawer

C. R. Jules

The collected volumes of C. R. Jules.

Each volume in the set is one journal. They were not written to be a series. They were written one entry at a time, by a person who wanted to remember exactly how a thing felt before the feeling had a chance to tidy itself up, and they were sorted into volumes afterward, the way you sort anything you never expected to show anyone.

Some entries are a single night. Some are a habit two people built over years. Some are instructions, because a thing learned the slow way ought to be passed on faster than that. Some are tender enough to read aloud. Some should not be read on a train.

You do not have to take them in order. Open the box, pull the volume whose name tugs at you, and start anywhere, as long as you end up somewhere: left yearning, or left curious.

Journaling is writing from my drawer. That is the whole method.

C. R. Jules

The box is not finished. A new journal goes in when it is ready, and not before.