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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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

In this time of electronic takeover

 

June 9 

from this week June, 2013  (I was 68)

 

In this time of electronic takeover

my sense of reality is reduced

to non-human nature

The prevalent electronic self-construct

of manipulated image

to intentionally create false impression

reinforces my ingrained mistrust

Nobody believes the advertised message

Often its opposite is more truthful

It is a distasteful reality of social identity

Without an imposing mega-nature

I might get caught up in dialog

of what we have electronically become

The universe has ultimate implications

Other planets come out of hiding

but I exist on this one and it is breathing

in the woods at the lake on the hill

down in the valley near the river

at the sea on the island hiking the volcano

that always convinces me to acknowledge

an identity that defines itself here

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