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broken jade figurine

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2000.12.20

In an especially gifted moment, I managed to break one of the two little jade figurines from Woodside that I kept after Grandpa's death. I just tossed the container on the dresser without thinking. I heard a 'chink', and sure enough, one of them is cracked right through the legs. How depressing.

rand()m quote

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

—Heraclitus