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some monarchs at last

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2014.09.14

My son and I must have seen a dozen monarch butterflies in the city today as we rode "Bells on Danforth". That's a pro-cycling-safety ride, unlike the other 364 days in the year.

Three good things that happened today:

  1. The cycle event had great turnout and Ken reported that he had fun.

  2. It was cool and cloudy and rain clouds threatened, but we avoided actual rain

  3. I've rescheduled the hang-gliding tandem for next week; not next year as I'd feared

rand()m quote

If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things I'd take seriously any more. I'd certainly be less hygenic... I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains, I would swim more rivers, and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd have many more of them, in fact I'd try not to have anything else, just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. If I had it to do all over again, I'd travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring, and I'd stay that way later in the fall. And I would ride more merry-go-rounds, and catch more gold rings, and greet more people and pick more flowers and dance more often. If I had it to do all over again - but you see, I don't.

—Jorge Luis Borges