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, October 29, 2018

even more slogans from the 8th grade bulletin board


even more slogans from the 8th grade bulletin board
–posted over my teaching years

I refuse to have a battle of wits
   with an unarmed person.
If it don’t make sense
   it’ll never make dollars
Children should be beaten once a day
   If you don’t know why, they do.
Hug your kids at home
   belt them in the car
The hand is quicker than the eye
   but only the nose runs
The first human to hurl a curse instead of a weapon
   founded civilization
Never fall for a tennis player
   to them love means nothing
Keep an open mind
   and people will fill it with garbage.


HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT? 
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Listen to my rendition of
Aquainted With The Night  by Robert Frost 

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