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, November 27, 2017

random exchanges of Ollie and Stanley


November 27, 2010  (I was 66)

random exchanges of Ollie and Stanley

Ollie says either/or
Stanley says both/and

Ollie contemplates the empty shell
Stanley hears the ocean within

Ollie agitates Not now, I’m busy
Stanley utters Not busy, I’m now

In the cathedral Ollie pontificates
Do you comprehend the magnificence
Stanley whispers I can even see the echoes

-I did a series of pieces using Laurel and Hardy as
representations of right brain and left brain perception.
Not an original idea, I got it from Colin Wilson’s study,
Frankenstein’s Castle.  More appear in other posts. 
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