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another year, another spill on my bike

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2012.10.17

As I did on September 2 last year, I had a spill today while crossing wet streetcar tracks.

"Happily", I was wearing a suede coat that absorbed a lot of the blow and scraping and whatnot. As did the hoodie I was wearing beneath it, and the thick track pants. And the two layers of gloves. Hooray for cold weather wear.

Only my ankle got scraped up. Boo for cold wet weather.

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