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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Friday, April 5, 2019

A lack of distinction resides in contentment


April 5, 2018  (I was 73)

A lack of distinction resides in contentment
an acceptance regardless of circumstance
a flexibility in adaptation
a quick study in the use of new tools
or satisfaction with the old hardware
interchangeable this or that

Lack of purpose lurks in contentment
the inaction of perfect satisfaction
satisfied with un-satisfaction
willing to let the fence lean
Listening for logic instead of thinking it
other brains just as good
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