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flying west with the kids

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2016.02.18

We've been invited by my father and brother to take a vacation with them this summer. It'll be two weeks on the west coast – the first time that Mari and The Boy have been there in five years, and the first time The Girl's been there period.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009