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May 2026 Issue: Art + Water (Print Edition) lit creates the conditions for aDispatches from Diaryland Betsy Rubiner looks at the hows and whys of journaling "Revisiting that diary many years later, Rubiner found a page labeled IDENTIFICATION, with fill in the blank lines for name, address, phone and so on. One blank was for weight. There was a scribble on the line, followed by 59 written in pencil. Looking closer at the scribble, Rubiner found that she had originally written 60 and crossed it out. I smile, recognizing my