Journal Entry #5: We have talked about writing; lets write about talking. Respond to one of the following quotations with your own commentary and musings (about 200 words minimum). Then respond briefly to three of your classmates postings.
1.  Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.  Samuel Johnson
2.  One may have a blazing hearth in ones soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.  Vincent van Gogh
3.  Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.  Karl Menninger