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ran into my eleven year old on the street today for the first time

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.05.18

When I ran into my son on the street today, I realized that it was the first time I'd encountered him acting as independently as he has for the entire school year. He'd arranged to meet some friends for basketball. We said our hellos and that was it.

(Way to go, boy.)

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl