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"D'oh!"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.09.08

Responsible parent that I am, I'm raising my boy on a diet of "The Simpsons".

Where else could he learn from such a father-son team as Homer and Bart?

Bart: "Ah, man, working for other people is for suckers!"

Homer: "Son, I'm very proud of you! I was at least twice your age before I figured that out."

And now, of course, Kenny's picked up the word, "D'oh". Homer's famous annoyed grunt. I've been trying to steer towards "D'oh" when more colourful and slightly longer words want to come out. I guess it could be worse.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner