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, April 20, 2019

Cannabis


from this week in April, 2014  (I was 69)

Cannabis
for me has always been the gatekeeper
the smoky entrance to doors of perception
the mind changer that made reality
of fantasy in the woods
and imaginings under the stars
confirming the actualities of existence
that put the daily grind in perspective
And in that knowing time of clarity
to write to paint to sculpt to strum to dance to think
the obvious which is so often invisible
in its own transparency

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