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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Saturday, October 6, 2018

minimalanimal


October 6, 1977*  (I was 32)  

            minimalanimal

                matter
lowest                                     
                cell                          
scarce           
                                   being                        
               least            
                                   entity  
          simple            
                                   creature           
           rudimentary                                     
                                   beast              
               restricted                         
                                   varmint                                 
                     petty            
                                   predator                           
 minor             
                                   fauna          
          conservative             
                                   denizen                            
                  minute           
                                   barbarian                           
       reduced
                                   brute            
               miniature           
                                   stock                   
           exact                                    
                         circumstance             
         precise                          
                                   image                
         humble


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