Just as [[Writing is thinking]], self-reflective [[§ Journaling MOC|Journaling]] is an act of sense-making. Sometimes this sense-making is directed at the lessons learned from travel, or from insights about oneself gleaned from new experiences or foreign cultures. Other times, it's about working through an experience to really understand what happened and why, and how we really feel about it. And yet other times, it's about understanding that event in the broader context of our personal life, considering what it means for us.