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riding with a stool sample

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2013.08.01

Emma still has some lingering effects from her illness, so I found myself riding through the city with a baby's stool sample to deliver. Needless to say, there was some complication with the sort of jar the hospital had given us, and I was told to do it all again.

It started to rain on me on the way back.

Ah, but 'tis to laugh.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009