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, June 9, 2017

In this time of electronic takeover


from this week June, 2013  (I was 68)

In this time of electronic takeover
my sense of reality is reduced
to non-human nature
The prevalent electronic self-construct
of manipulated image
to intentionally create false impression
reinforces my ingrained mistrust
Nobody believes the advertised message
Often its opposite is more truthful
It is a distasteful reality of social identity
Without an imposing mega-nature
I might get caught up in dialog
of what we have electronically become
The universe has ultimate implications
Other planets come out of hiding
but I exist on this one and it is breathing
in the woods at the lake on the hill
down in the valley near the river
at the sea on the island hiking the volcano
that always convinces me to acknowledge
an identity that defines itself here

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