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twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.11.18

This morning, Kenny solved a two-part problem.

At the daycare, I gave him his towel to place on its hook. He toddled over to the row of hooks, but discovered that another child had put a towel on his hook! Giving it a moment's thought, he reached up and put the mis-placed towel on another hook, then put his own away.

No fuss, no drama, just got on with it.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row