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, July 24, 2019

There’s a lot of confusion going on


July 24, 2015  (I was 70)

There’s a lot of confusion going on
and that’s when some make money
A lot going on that is confusing
cashing in on something funny

There’s not a lot of winners winning
that haven’t won before
Not a lot of miners mining
a different breed of ore

Skip the lot of hooters hooting
not an owl among them sees
any wisdom in the shooting
stars shooting through the trees
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