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my egg was printed

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Halifax, 2004.03.21

Today I noticed something strange on an egg as I prepared my breakfast. It had been stamped with a printout of the farm it came from, and a date. I don't know if it was a laid date, collected date, or best before date, but there it was. Bizarre. Is this really necessary?

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