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 30, 2016

I think I’m getting another creeping case of existentialism


December 30, 1971  (I was 27)

I think I’m getting another creeping case of existentialism
right in the middle of my romantic transcendental period (or is it over) .
I don’t feel naturalistic because at the moment the environment seems
as impotent as myself.  I’ve just got the cosmic creep (sometimes
known as the cosmic cry of ecstasy).  If anything figures, it’s that all
must be one.  I guess that one, in the whole, could be as disintegrated
as it is in it’s parts.  All this, in that case, is some kind of come together
wet dream in the seventh day’s night, and tomorrow, baby, come the
Hard Eight.

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