LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS, BUT WRITING IS MEDICINE: My pal Trisha linked to a cool site with little "word toys" for those of us who like that kind of thing. Anyway, I went there and started playing with this thing called a "cut-up machine" and, needing some text to have it cut up, I typed the following:

I love the world. I love my life and all the people and things in it. I sometimes have trouble falling asleep because I'm afraid to turn off my life for fear it won't come back on. I guess that I write because it feels like I'm making a deal with eternity to let something of mine be immortal.

Anyway, I was so pleased with what came out of my keyboard with no thought or preparation that I figured I'd toss it in here, my little eternity-space.