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, February 28, 2020

Field Guide to Birds of North America


from this week in 2017  (I was 72)

Field Guide to Birds of North America
Copyright 1966 in Racine Wisconsin
owned by Francie Austen Yoshinoga
Camden Maine 1974  Sold to me
by Kona Bay Bookstore in Hawaii 2014
and transported to Pleasanton California
It’s pages have a lot of wings
Commonly known as a Golden Press Paperback
with identifications of sky blue breast markings
a belly of variegated blues with touches of red and white
It’s back is unmarked and entirely beige
Judging its compact sturdy structure
I would not doubt the possibility of long life
with further extended flights
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