Why Journal?

• The perfect tool for record/memory keeping

• Helps with organization & executive functioning

• Can help with medical treatment of yourself or a loved one

• Allows for clarity through cognitive off-loading

• Engages the mind

• Provides a grounding, centering activity (great for waiting rooms or standing in lines)

• Easy, affordable therapy

• Allows for perspective

• Helps you to be a better friend, coworker and family member

In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived, looked around and wrote down observations…  and for that very reason have got to admit the courage of our earlier striving in which we persisted even in sheer ignorance. —Franz Kafka, The Diaries 1910-1923

Never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things — childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves — that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers. - Salmun Rushdie