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always on the hottest day of the year

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2014.08.26

Cycled in a mad rush across the city today, getting to the hospital - it's always on the hottest day of the year. Our poor little munchkin, always with the ambulances and the emergency wards.

Three good things that happened today:

  1. Crisis averted
  2. A glimmer of new hope has emerged from all of it
  3. As always, the family functioned well throughout; I married well and we have a treasure of a big brother (though he ate all the chips)

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row