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remembrance day

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2012.11.12

Ken's school had a remembrance day event today. I managed to convey enough of the sense of the meaning of the day that he actually stayed a silent for the full minute during the observance.

It wasn't easy, and unfortunately on the way to school he told his mum that he had a sad feeling that he couldn't explain.

Maybe the Google Images stuff was too much. I don't know, I couldn't get him to listen without the visuals, though. Where the hell do you start with explaining this stuff to an almost-five-year-old? Stories from the family? Here? Here?

rand()m quote

One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force