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, January 8, 2018

The interpretations of the influences of chance


January 8, 2015  (I was 70)   

The interpretations of the influences of chance
reading the cards or the leaves in the cup
lines in the palm or drop of the sticks
the stars the stones the kernels the shadows
the figures in the clouds and the scorch in the pan
The feces of whatever species you revere
looked at long enough makes you a seer
Pick a random book off a random shelf
cut to random words relevant to your self
Right and left brain in tandem
tell you there is no random
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