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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Thursday, July 9, 2020

contour writing

from this week in July, 2012  (I was 67)

 

   contour writing

The controls give the pilot

something to fiddle with as the

computer flies the plane  They

are connected directly to the

pilot’s assumptions  Pull back on the stick

the plane seems to ascend

Push right and you can bank on it

The computer reads your mind

and convinces you you’ve done

exactly the right thing when

you do nothing at all  Multi

tasking you call it

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