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"you guys are good parents"

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2016.10.18

Our four-year-old surprised me this morning, sticking her head into the washroom and saying, "You guys are good parents."

I blinked at her and said, "What? What makes you say that?"

She shrugged, smiled, and said, "You and o-kaa-san, you just are."

Well OK then.

rand()m quote

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke