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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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Infamous Quotes


More from the 8th grade bulletin board
-posted over the years to 1966-2003

            Infamous Quotes
Life goes on within you and without you.  George the Beatle
I yam what I yam.  Popeye the sailor
Maybe I’m doing it wrong. Newman the pianist
Money doesn’t talk, it swears. Dylan the Zimmerman
I used to be disgusted.  Now I try to be amused.  Elvis the Costello
Art is the lie that reveals the truth.  Picasso the cubist
Changes in latitude, changes in attitude.   Buffett the pirate
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. S. Johnson the Brit.
Take a picture, it lasts longer.  F Stop Fitzgerald the photo-novelist
I butchered rocks to free the men inside.  Michelangelo the quarryman
We have enough youth, where’s the Fountain of Smart?  Dunce de Leon
Like other surrealists, I am not a surrealist.  sign in a Salvador deli
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