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delicate petals on my street

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2025.04.29

I would go by here three days later and find all these petals had been torn down by the torrential rain we had in between.

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Selfish leaders increase risk by placing themselves first. It's a fundamental mistake to assume that what is good for us personally is mutually exclusive to what is good for everyone. That kind of zero-sum game is for cowards, and in the end, we all pay the price for this type of latent, toxic leadership.

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