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"all gone da yo"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.11.08

The Boy informed us this morning that something was now finished. Mixing English and Japanese, he said, "All gone, da yo!" We've gotta start training him to pick a verbal swim lane, I think. Not sure how to go about that, though.

[edit: 2021.08.03. We moved to Canada a year later. That did the trick.]

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