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an earful of pool water

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2015.04.07

I was holding The Girl in an indoor pool when she grabbed my head and forcibly squirted a mouthful of water into my ear. Almost-three-year-olds!

No wonder I get sick every time I go to the pool with the kids.

rand()m quote

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…

—Hermann Hesse