#14....Flora's quote for the day (sept 16, 03)

"People would ask what I did, and I would say, "I'm a writer!"  They inevitably would ask, "What do you write?"

                                 .......When I answered "Journals,"

sometimes they chuckled or smirked, or said, "No really - what do you write - for real?" as though journals were less valuable somehow.

                                     Journals are not less valuable.

Whatever coaxes us out of hiding, to write, record, and express, is a revolutionary act.  It says that we believe our lives count.

                                             Our lives do count.

~SARK