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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2023.06.26

I'm in the midst of a busy travel time. I just spent a week in the Netherlands, and then I'm off for British Columbia in two weeks. While in the airport in the Netherlands, I started compiling a list of all the times I've flown. It's more than 150 flights, and totals more than 500,000km. Take that, global atmosphere!

visual log of my flights

You can easily make out the four places I've lived the longest.

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