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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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Beginning the Overwhelming


May 15, 2013  (I was 68)

   Beginning the Overwhelming
Some images are iconic
portrayed in literary and dramatic arts
jumping on a moving carousel
speeding at you and flying away
catching a moving train
leaping from a horse to a stage coach
or onto its galloping team
stepping out the door in a driving storm
making the momentous phone call
the first step on the green mile
the setting of life against powerful oppression
The gut wrenching undertaking
always hinges on catching the momentum
a confident turn and grab jump
doing an Einstein relatively speaking
gaining a foothold on the thought system
and a stomach for the motion
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