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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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Think back to a time you believed in myths


from this week in January, 2007  (I was 62)

Think back to a time you believed in myths
were a part of the myths you believed
The place you lived then was your true home
and home was another myth
the warmth and safety and assurance
That someone knew what to do
and someone understood why it was done
was something you believed
and the belief made it true
until you knew better
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