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"The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. ... To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought." - Elizabeth Bowen

I agree that what Ms. Bowen described is PART of writing, but there is also planning, discipline and rewriting involved. Of course, your best writing often happens when you change or abandon your plan!

"Until the Women's Movement, it was commonplace to be told by an editor that he'd like to publish more of my poems, but he'd already published one by a woman that month." - Maxine Kumin

"My first rule of playwrighting is that scenes must be rivers, not lakes. They must go somewhere." - David Hare

As you've probably heard, the military dictatorship in Burma (Myanmar)--ironically named the State Peace and Development Council--has returned to form by putting opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under "protective custody" and imprisoning many of her supporters. Her party overwhelming won an election in 1990 but has not been allowed to take power.

"Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker (born on June 3, 1906)

I have new students starting in my ESL class at the Saskatoon Open Door Society today. They're from Albania and Sudan. I already have students from Eritrea, China (including Hong Kong), Honduras, Japan and South Korea. One of the reasons why I love teaching ESL is meeting people from around the world and learning at least a little about their countries of origin. When I hear Canadians repeat stereotypes about various nationalities, I can say, "Well, my student, X, is from Y and isn't like that at all."