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 2, 2020

How do I feel about:

from this week in July, 2015 (I was 70)

 

How do I feel about:

The law of averages

         So so I guess

The law of attraction 

I’m repelled by it

The law of supply and demand

         I want what I have

The law of the land

         So often the law of the landed

The law of diminishing returns

         Alas we all return diminished

To the victor go the spoils

         A spoiled victory

The law of cause and effect

         So convenient when valid

The law of gravity

         Grave enough

The law of badges

         A show of smell

The law of the jungle

         Eat all that you kill, love all that you eat

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