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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.04.06

It's a good thing I didn't have a pesky job to contend with. I spent an hour from 4 o'clock meeting with a volunteer who had come forward to donate his talents as a facilitator in a strategic planning session. Then at 5 o'clock, I chaired a meeting of the IT committee of my other board, to keep the ball rolling on a substantial capacity-building project that's encountered major obstacles with a vendor. And then at 7 o'clock it was time to leave for a monthly meeting of the local ward-level advocacy group in that same organization.

Mind you, the job search did consume the bulk of the day.

rand()m quote

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

—Steven J. Gould