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turkey vultures circling Toronto

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2002.09.22

I was at the reference library working on a short story today, when I noticed three turkey vultures circling low over some green space just to the north. It was a rather disturbing sight for the middle of the city. I wonder what the saw. Or smelled - apparently they can smell things from kilometers away....

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl