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St Catharines, 2022.07.28

We're at "Grandma's" after quite a trek. Narita Express to the airport in Tokyo, then a delayed flight to Vancouver that meant we didn't have time to make our connection to Toronto. So, another delay and then we landed. Waiting for an hour for our luggage to no avail, we learned that we'd have to return tomorrow to pick that up. All that was left was the hour trek to St. Catharines. And here we are, on the other side of the world.

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