Editorial from the print version of MILLENNIUM #1:

I had a letter from my best friend the month before last. In part, it read:

"One of the best things I've done for myself in the past year was to start keeping my journal, because for the first time since I was a child I'm writing something strictly for me, and I'm doing it because I want to do it. I started a fresh file on New Year's Day and a running count on it shows I've put 229,000 words in the document in a half-year. Such logorrehea would tell you that it ain't worth reading; to anyone but myself that's undoubtedly true. To me, it's been time and effort well-spent. Therefore, it might be worthwhile for you to do a project that you've always wanted to do for the sheer hell of it, strictly for kicks, knowing no one but yourself will ever see it. Only you know what such a project should be; only you will ever see the end product, but there's something to be said for getting at least a taste of the fun of writing back on one's palate. B- tells me one of the little subliminal motivational techniques at her telemarketing firm is a personalized nameplate for everyone's cubicle with some bullshit quote or other about the benefits of competition. B- has taped over her quote and replaced it with one from Lao Tsu: "The sage dreams of great things, and in seeking nothing , accomplishes them." (And she is leading her area in sales made; I've joked they may bring her back to teach a revolutionary Taoist approach to selling by phone!) Maybe this is a time to focus more on the dreaming and less on the accomplishing...?"

Here then, in the spirit of my friend's helpful words, is MILLENNIUM.

D U C K