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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Sunday, June 20, 2021

I heard a Hawaiian lady she say

 

June 20, 2018  (I was 73)

 

I heard a Hawaiian tita she say

Pele erupt so furious

ovah ovah-population

Too many people try live here

moving in from all ovah but den

I think of five hundred hales destroyed

belong most of them to locals living

here all they life and wonder why

she pick on them allatime

The ones probly love her best

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