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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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Ollie and Stanley in the Garden


November 23, 2010  (I was 66)

             Ollie and Stanley in the Garden
Ollie:      Stanley, what do you do when you have no
             money for food?
Stanley:  I admire someone’s garden
Ollie:      And what will that do?
Stanley:  I don’t know.  I just know hunger makes it
             easy to admire a garden.
Ollie:      Would you steal some vegetables if no one
             was looking?
Stanley:  Well, that would depend, wouldn’t it?
Ollie:      Depend on the kind of vegetables, how many
             there were, who owned them, how much they
             would be missed?
Stanley:  Yes, those things and maybe more.
Ollie:      And what would you know if you had all that
              information?
Stanley:  I’d know how hungry I really was.

-I did a series of pieces using Laurel and Hardy as
representations of right brain and left brain perception.
Not an original idea, I got it from Colin Wilson’s study,
Frankenstein’s Castle.  More appear in other posts. 

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