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broken jade figurine

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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

Work is about a daily search for meaning as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life, rather than a monday-to-friday sort of dying.

— Studs Terkel