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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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Ancient history certainly began

 

from this week in 2013  (I was 68)

 

Ancient history certainly began

twenty years before my birth

Half century before that inhabited

only by the dead buried in books

Before that only myths

who rode on beasts or borne by sail

to lands and societies unknown

And seasons were what seasons meant to be

created by the greater astronomy

We were the objects not the subject

of such incomprehensible responsibility

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