Debbie Goehring > Quotes

“This is a place where a fisherman straps his dugout canoe paddles to a bicycle to get a four-foot Tarpon to market. Where men cut a tree from the volcano at four in the morning and deliver it by horse cart to replace a washed-out electric pole. Where a meter reader reads a broken meter faithfully every month for years and everyone involved accepts the absurdity without complaint. You did not fight the system here. You found the workaround, and the workaround was always more interesting than whatever you'd planned.”
― Debbie Goehring, The Monkey Lady's Gift