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, May 15, 2019

The Credo of Hypocrisies from pro athletes


May 15, 2009  (I was 64)    

The Credo of Hypocrisies from pro athletes
makes us all look like idiots:
We’re grown men here
we take responsibility for our actions
We create extraordinarily high
expectations for ourselves
We have impeccable work ethic
We always give 100% but
we know how to step it up when we have to
I live for the pressure of game seven
It ain’t trash talk if you can back it up
I know I am blessed and ordained by God
I believe everything happens for a reason
We’re done talking about it
We were embarrassed
and it called into question the character
of some of their players
We’ve had tough ones to swallow before
but this one just snowballed
It wasn’t nerves
it was just a matter of settling down
We regret that it happened but
we’ve put it behind us and we move on

The message to kids should be
you don’t have to talk like that to be successful

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