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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Sunday, January 14, 2018

origami family


January 14, 2012  (I was 67) 

            origami family
Folds in the single sheet of paper
create the geometrical planes we name
as individual shapes existing at angled
relationships to one another reflecting
varied shades of light ever more
intricately multi-plying patterns
one fold crosses another fold
as if they were separate entities
moving in opposite directions
through the origami universe
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