journal features

detoured by tragedy

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2015.12.01

I was unable to cross the Don river at my usual spot due to a police barricade; they'd found a body in the river. Kinda puts one's problems in perspective.

rand()m quote

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

—George Bernard Shaw