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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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Change in perspective is what makes home home


from this week of September, 2018  (I was 73)

Change in perspective is what makes home home
Away possibilities are expanded
Imagination can get the best of you
the vision of becoming something else
Fast-forward role playing entices belief
Immediate time restraints are temporary
commitments reworkable
finances merely financial
Reality is home being home
In more complex ways than realized before
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