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a turtle in lake Ontario

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2015.08.31

For the first time in my life, I saw a turtle in Lake Ontario this morning as I cycled to work. Could the ecology be getting better, at last?

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

—Abraham Lincoln