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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2023.10.21

I discovered a one-liter thing of milk sitting on the counter. I asked my daughter if it was there because it was bad. Yes. So I took it from its perch next to the sink and poured it. Then I rinsed and cut up the cartons and did the dishes while she hung some small items on a laundry rack. It took nearly twenty minutes to wrap up the dishes at which time I found she'd hung all of eleven socks and other items. So, nearly two minutes per item.

Ah, to be a child.

rand()m quote

... I'll let you in on a secret. Big people are exactly the same as little people. They're selfish, squabbling children whose motivations are jealousy and greed. No one becomes big when the hit adulthood. They just become better at hiding how small they are.

Jonathan Rosenberg