journal features

weehoo and eastern kingbird

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2013.05.19

Ken and I took to the cycle paths today, heading to Leslie Spit, then up the Don Valley as far as Riverdale Park, then across to home. Five year old Ken loves the Weehoo bike trailer - it's comfortable and allows him to pedal as we go.

We saw quite a few birds (even more than we saw birders), including what I now believe was an Eastern Kingbird. It was a beautiful morning.

The manufacturers of the bike trailer gave us a 10% discount coupon so I'm going around telling everyone.

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