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disclocation

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Dubai, 2023.06.18

I'm having one of those 21st Century dislocation moments. A St Catharines farm boy talking to his South-African-born step-sister about my fishing in British Columbia with her husband when I visit my father... while I'm sitting on the tarmac in Dubai as I go the long way between my home in Tokyo and my employee's HQ in The Hague. Because some Russian dictator has started WWIII. On, of all days, father's day.

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