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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Monday, October 24, 2016

Still more slogans from the bulletin board


Still more slogans from the bulletin board
–posted over my teaching years

Give me ambiguity, or give me something else
Time wounds all heels
Truth is the first casualty in any conflict
We are united by our doubts, divided by our convictions
When it comes to helping you some people stop at nothing
A verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on
I used to be lost in the shuffle until
   I started shuffling along with the lost
Consistency requires you to be
   as ignorant today as you were yesterday
I’ve done so much with so little for so long
   I can now do anything with nothing.
In communism man feeds upon man
   in capitalism it’s the other way around.


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Aquainted With The Night  by Robert Frost 
 
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