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, April 1, 2021

Between the invention and the progress

 

from this week in April, 2016  (I was 72)

 

Between the invention and the progress

Is the attention garnered or summoned

Notice taken or called upon

Does the thing take wing

or must it be thrown to be flown

That’s where the other comes into play

Will they get the notion or need promotion

to notice what is new

We think the worth self-evident

but to what we find obvious the other is oblivious

Sure our thoughts will improve their life

they find reconsideration strange

and another change an additional grief

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