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walking in the sun

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kawasaki, 2020.03.15

Today I walked for about 4.5 hours. First I went back to everyone's favorite gully to pick up some storage things and groceries. I returned by about noon and decided to have a nap. I then woke at 13:30 and decided there was still more cruft I needed for the apartment. But it was sunny and if not exactly warm then at least not too windy. So I decided to walk around a very large cemetery that's been built atop a hill across the valley. I walked all over it, even descending an unmarked (but paved!) trail from the lower half into a gorge and across to the upper half.

Then I went and did more housewares shopping. I even found a lint roll thing for the dark pants that I washed with two new and very cheaply made towels. D'oh!

I can't find peanut butter anywhere.

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