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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2012.01.15

It was a sunny gorgeous day, today; naturally, I took Kenny to the museum.

I wanted to see the new Maya exhibit, and he wanted to see the dinosaurs. We did both, to the satisfaction of neither I imagine.

Fun fact: according to the ROM, there's nowhere in the Maya calendar that talks about Dec 23, 2012 being the end of the world. Just the end of the current era; the Mayans even had references to dates past the popular "end of the world" date.

Kenny concluded our visit by saying, "I like the musimin." (his word for "museum").

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery