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, February 27, 2017

Lost Beliefs and Faiths:


from this week in February 2009  (I was 64)

Lost Beliefs and Faiths:
Powerful persons and institutions are committed to upholding justice
Immediate Karma (as anything more than random happenstance)
A devil as root and keeper of all evil
Simple causes of most effects
Goodness and talent will be rewarded
Myths are extinct
Superstition is displaced by science
Time progresses
Answer to prayers
Religion as an agent of good
The word of God exists in written text
Divine promise purpose and guidance
Knowledge makes one wise
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