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four carved matches

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Vancouver, 2002.08.01

I made a wonderous discovery, today. Among my grandfather's scalpels and forcips and other former medical gear that he was using for carving tools, I found four matches that he'd carved. Two were two-mast sailing ships. Another was a figure hanging onto the matchstick. The fourth was an intricately carved chain! I'm delighted.

rand()m quote

I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young, I liked them when I was middle-age, I liked them before I was president, and I like them during president, and I like them after president.

—George W. Bush