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"Bye-bye Daddy!"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.09.15

This is one of his favourite sayings, something he likes to shout out whenever he and I are moving in directions that take us apart. Curiously, he doesn't say it (or anything) when I'm dropping him at the daycare, he just runs off. But he yells it at the top of his lungs when I'm lying in bed with a migraine. Ah, little one.

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