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, December 24, 2018

I would like to see something Joseph made of wood


December 24, 2012  (I was 68)

I would like to see something Joseph made of wood
something of substance to make him real as Mary
to see what part of brightness was he
the reflective part of the man
in the carpentry removed from divine notions
the working of utilitarian artistry
something manipulated by his tools
service consecrated to a patron devotee
or in a bartered rendering of equal value
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