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, January 23, 2017

I’ll Be Your Sky


January 23, 1977  (I was 32)

         I’ll Be Your Sky  -song
Airplane lover workin’ under cover
Fanjet sucking up the air
Roar so load, head in a cloud
Won’t take long to get there        
You can drop your flaps
You can raise your gear
Pull back the stick and fly
I’ll be your sky
I’ll be your sky
I’ll be your sky

Traffic stacked up, flights are backed up
Wheel me down your runway
Standing-by’s so hard I’ll cry
and we could travel the fun way

So drop down your flaps
and raise up your gear
Pull back the stick and fly
I’ll be your sky
I’ll be your sky
I’ll be your sky

The air’s so blue at high altitude                 
Don’t think I’ll ever touch down
Kiss on the mouth then fly south
Off to get a sunburn

You can drop your flaps
You can raise your gear
Pull back the stick and fly
I’ll be your sky
I’ll be your sky
I’ll be your sky

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