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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

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…

—Hermann Hesse