I don’t write in a journal everyday, but I have accumulated many entries over the past 50+ years beginning in 1966. Some items evolved into longer works. Among the leftovers little pieces survived. I thought a collection of these with a piece culled from the same date in a past year would make an interesting yearbook. The consistencies and inconsistencies of mind, skipping back and forth across time, provide varied perspectives. It is difficult to remember the context of the past we’ve lived; we also make suppositions about times that predate ourselves.

The few alterations from original drafts were to improve clarity. The worst of my work is not included. There remains enough mediocrity and immaturity to make me feel humble and you feel smart. There are also moments of accidental insight and incidental humor.

Author Stephen Crane referred to his little pieces as pills…apparently they were small and somewhat hard to swallow, but good for you.


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Sunday, June 19, 2016

Heritage and Willbrook Plantation


June 19, 2004 (I was 59)

Heritage and Willbrook Plantation
         Love and frustration define holes at Heritage, a superb plantation
course.  Some difficult forced carries and deceptive shot choices, puzzling
even after a number of plays.  Bermuda greens with subtle breaks right
at the hole are a part of the test here.  Three hundred year old oaks,
emotion-laden plantation history, lowland humidity, cobalt sky with drifting
puffs of cloud, alligator ponds, a killer course with deceptive shot choices
and potato chip shaped greens in the burn of summer.  A genuine taste of
the South Carolina low-country golf experience.
         Willbrook is another definitive plantation course with moss
laden oaks, meandering stream and dark reflective ponds on grounds
replete with historic markers to recall details of the old plantation life.
You don’t want a ball in the sweaty, snaky, insect-infested wetland.
Nor do you want to miss the feeling of a golf round in the setting golden
sun on the idyllic last day of a great pair of weeks.  I played nineteen
full rounds and nine more holes in twelve days of golf, not a trip
record, but more than satisfying.

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