- Steve Jobs, the man who had such an enormous impact on my life. I’m tapping this out on an iPhone right now.
- “Steve Jobs” the movie, which I saw this afternoon. There’s a line, spoken by him: “God sent his only son to Earth on a suicide mission, but we love him anyway because he made trees.” Yeah. And I watch that and wonder whether the notion that it is better to be a good man than a great man is just a lie told to ourselves by those of us who never did anything to change the world. This is obviously a more complicated topic for me than will fit in a gratitude entry; the gratitude is, I guess, for having been given the meat to chew on. And for the efforts of the filmmakers to tell us goodness and greatness are not mutually exclusive.
- This little park on Fulton and Gold. It’s quiet and there some tree frogs chirping. If that’s possible in New York in October.
- The FDNY. There’s a truck parked down the block.
- The couple a few benches away who appear to be breaking up. The girl is crying and the guy keeps talking. They might just be fighting. In any case it’s a reminder of something I don’t have going on right now and I try to remind myself to be grateful for every unreturned OKCupid message; better now than later.
Many thanks,
Me