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no longer "great husband"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.11.30

Well as I suspected, it's all over.

I forgot to take the Kenny's journal with him to the day care today. I guess I'm no longer all that great a husband. And here I thought I was doing well; he arrived on time with all of his clothes, towels, and spare diapers; his teeth were brushed; and I'd taken his body temperature.

Sigh.

Today I met with a man who has five children. I simply can't see how they manage.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.