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first family cycle trip

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2017.05.28

The family took a cycle trip down to Tommy Thompson park today and had a fine time. The water is so high that several parts were flooded. Ken and I wanted to show the females our favorite fishing hole but couldn't get anywhere near it - that part of the shore is gone!

The weather was damn strange out there. Thick mist until past noon. As opposed to late Autumn, when warm water is bleeding off heat into the air and "sea fog" forms, this was water-cooled air that had been pushed to its dew point. Brrr!

No wonder the fishing's been so terrible this Spring.

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner