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outdoors weekend day II

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.09.19

Today our weekend of living outdoors on the cheap continued. We'd had the idea of trekking out to a "Thomas World" thing. But it was too dear.

And too much travel, at two hours in each direction.

So we went to a festival in Meguro instead. Here are some pics of the day.

Kenny working the pump

me, working a pump at 18 months

After the festival we went to a park we knew in Meguro.

It's one of the first parks we ever took Kenny to. He's not the tiny toddler he was then.

rand()m quote

Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

—Hermann Goering