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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Friday, October 4, 2019

Death is more fearful when life is astonishing


October 4–posted, written 10/7/18
from this week of October, 2018  (I was 73)

Death is more fearful when life is astonishing
a daily wonderment fit for an eternity
magical existence with unfathomable end
purposeful continuance gloriously new
unfit for sleep if not for dreams
When the nurturing protectorate retires
infirm aged or disinterested
preoccupied perhaps gradually
or suddenly educated in disintegration
the cost of maintaining existence
taxes the intellect into reconsideration
of even more awesome realms
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