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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Friday, December 23, 2016

Carl Sagan could interpret stellar photographs


from this week of December, 2013  (I was 69)

Carl Sagan could interpret stellar photographs
By the color of celestial objects
he could determine or at least speculate
upon their chemical composition
understand by their quivering
whether anything was orbiting them
how many million light years away they were
or even if they were mere ghost emanations
whose dead light was reaching us eons after
it had actually expired  I suspect
he totally admired the paintings of Jackson Pollock
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