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, February 27, 2021

Lost Beliefs and Faiths

 

from this week in February 2009  (I was 64)

 

Lost Beliefs and Faiths:

Powerful persons and institutions are committed to upholding justice

Immediate Karma as anything more than random happenstance

A devil as root and keeper of all evil

Simple causes of most effects

Goodness and talent will be rewarded

Myths are extinct

Superstition is displaced by science

Time progresses

Answer to prayers

Religion as an agent of good

The word of God exists in written text

Divine promise purpose and guidance

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