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the wisdom of three year olds

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2011.06.21

Tonight at the dinner table I related a story to Mari about a sequence of events at the office that was so predictable a three year old could see it coming. Which, in fact, is what happened. As I giddily told a tale of reversals, cop-outs, and delays, The Boy suddenly yelled, "stop, daddy!" So I stopped.

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