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, March 17, 2017

Religions lay away days of the year


March 17, 2014  (I was 69)

Religions lay away days of the year
to commemorate their saints and saintly events
Governments for their leaders and victories
Families honor their comings and goings
In this way we give meaning to each day
just in case there is nothing happening now

Of course there is a now worthy of note
To recognize it is merely to hold it like a flower
Hold it like the breath between breaths
Let its bouquet inspire a complexity
to which master vintners can only dream
It is a fragrance and taste that touches
an idea that embraces all my ideas
and registers them in the moment that is present
That recognition is ever available and always enough
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