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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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Old Home movies recorded the artifice


January 24, 2012  (I was 67)

Old Home movies recorded the artifice
we put in front of the camera
Even subjects caught candidly
viewed at this later date are characters
not the realities we thought they were
Their extemporaneous gestures have been exposed
For generations Hollywood caught wide emotion in Cinemascope
while our family demeanors captured the small screen  
awkward impromptu interpretations of acting
No more!  Home theaters Make Everything Epic!
One reality is as real as the other
With electronic edits added music and voice over
we can make it as unreal as it is supposed to be
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