• Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Urn Garden Home
  • About

Life in the Garden

Matters of Life and Death

  • Blog Home
  • Confessions
  • Featured Products
  • Memorial Service Ideas
  • Pets
You are here: Home / obituaries / TMI: Diary of 37.5 Million Words

TMI: Diary of 37.5 Million Words

August 17, 2008 urngarden.com

olan mills

Rev. Robert Shields (1918 – 2007) was a former Minister and high school English teacher who lived in Dayton, Washington. He left a diary of 37.5 million words chronicling every 5 minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.

Excerpts:

July 25, 1993
7 am: I cleaned out the tub and scraped my feet with my fingernails to remove layers of dead skin.
7.05 am: Passed a large, firm stool, and a pint of urine. Used five sheets of paper.

August 13, 1995
8.45 am: I shaved twice with the Gillette Sensor blade [and] shaved my neck behind both ears, and crossways of my cheeks, too.

From Wikipedia

Filed Under: obituaries Tagged With: obituaries

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Cleanser says

    August 17, 2008 at 10:58 PM

    WOW… It’s like blogging, but on paper!

    He once said “Maybe by looking into someone’s life at that depth, every minute of every day, they will find out something about all people.” [Wikipedia]

    That something: everybody does some amount of incredibly dull, mundane things…

  2. Lenette says

    August 18, 2008 at 1:47 AM

    Right, but there’s some things we just don’t need to know.

  3. candace says

    August 18, 2008 at 2:41 PM

    I have no words…

Primary Sidebar

See More Memorial Ideas

cremation urns

At Urn Garden, we have experience working with families as they experience the loss of a loved one. Our hope is that the articles and resources below will help make this process just a little easier.

If you’re looking to purchase a cremation urn, feel free to browse our collection, which includes keepsake urns, urns for pets, cremation jewelry, and more.

If there’s anything we can help you with, feel free to contact us or give us a call at 1-888-876-1467.

Recent Posts

  • Kiss My Ash Cremation Urn Collection-Some of Our Craziest Engraved Urns
  • Planning a Funeral for a Suicide
  • What you need to know about buying an urn online
  • Death with Dignity
  • Cremation & Religion: What Religions Believe in Cremation?

Pages

  • About Us

Death in the Digital Age

  • Beyond Indigo Grief Forum
  • Find A Grave
  • Seven Ponds
  • Talking to Children About Death
  • The Daily Undertaker

Copyright © 2023 Urn Garden · Log in