Do post-it notes have authors?

It’s me again, the one that is completely infatuated with Post Secret. Well, the obsession has definitely taken a turn for the worst now as the concept of the website/books has suddenly seeped into my real life! Weird! I get home for Thanksgiving break really late and am about to go to bed when I notice two crinkly, hand-written journal pages on my desk. Obviously, I'm horrified. Did I write this and just leave it sitting out for all to see? What has been on my mind in the last few months? How bad would it be if someone has read this??? I soon see that there is a note from my mom. Of course, the fear factor soars. “Hi honey, I found these on your chair. My, you lead a very interesting life, don’t you?” Just kidding. Actually, it was she with the questionable scruples. She apparently found the pages floating in a lake and picked them up! And read them! And has now passed them on to me (who read them. But Lake Tahoe is so far away. No one would really be affected if I read it… blah, blah, blah, justification, justification, justification… Okay! I did a bad thing.) Anyway, I won’t elaborate about the content of the journal too much (except if you know anyone that is sad and named Cindy, let her know that someone really wishes he could apologize to her). The point of this blog, really, is that the artistic nature of the journal entry made me almost want to consider the writer an author. For me, the beauty of the way he put words together, and the sentiment that came through in his pages made me feel like he (unknowingly) had more authorship than if what he’d written had been just some emo crap written by a teenager. I think the fact that he is older (it seemed late 20s early 30s) also led me to the idea that he was an “author” of this entry rather than just a guy with a pencil and too many thoughts. I don’t think everything people write is something that is authored. Clearly (at least in my opinion) a Post-it note reminding you to pick up groceries would not be considered something that you authored. What do you guys think distinguishes something someone has written so that it rises from words on a page to something where the writer is an author?