What I got today

What I got today
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2008

Like many yesterdays, today was high in stress, exclamation points, shocking surprises - mostly bad, very serious setbacks, crises (that’s a plural, mind you), dull rain, bad communication, ridiculous misunderstandings, obnoxious people, water leaks, wasted food, moody crews, scheduling problems, 12 1/2 hours at work, doubts, distance and loneliness.

But, erasing all this, topping it, nullifying it, I got not one, but many lovely smileys, zeros and ones of digital love. Straight from Brooklyn. What more could one ever ask for? I am, still and always, the luckiest guy in the world and dragons had better stand clear because I will fend them off.

« We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests, enchanting deer and butterflies with her smile. What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure ...not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth! Our century, they’ve changed clothes, of course. Dragons wear government-costumes, today, and failure-suits and disaster-outfits. Society’s demons screech, whirl down on us should we lift our eyes from the ground, dare we turn right at corners we’ve been told to turn left. So crafty have appearances become that princesses and knights can be hidden from each other, can be hidden from themselves. »
Richard Bach - The Bridge Across Forever

Posted at 3:23 AM in Always: & Schtroumpfissime:

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1 - Sigrid says:

« « Stand fast! », I say. Contre vents et marees. »
Date of comment: 2008-05-14 11:14 •
1.1 - Vince answers:

« Indeed! »
Date of comment: 2008-05-14 17:43 •
2 - Jay and Guy says:

« Ah Beence! You are a dragon slayer - and you already have a princess....
As we say in Cape Town, « Vasbyt! Môre is nog ‘n dag. » »
Date of comment: 2008-05-14 11:22 •
2.1 - Vince answers:

« Thank you both! I’ll get a translation from my editor. »
Date of comment: 2008-05-14 17:44 •
3 - Marie says:

« Ons is moeg, maar ons stap nog.

God, as ‘n man swak is, kry hy darem baie kak. »
Date of comment: 2008-05-14 22:21 •
3.1 - Vince answers:

« Hmm, but I’m not weak... »
Date of comment: 2008-05-15 02:51 •
4 - Sigrid says:

« Err, was that a « translation » Marie??? I see. It’s much clearer indeed. »
Date of comment: 2008-05-15 08:57 •

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