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, August 17, 2021

incident at Mt. Lassen

 

August 17,1969  (I was 24)

 

incident at Mt. Lassen

granite peak

blue mountain sky

august snow

dirty even from a distance

hundred thousand green trees

like a fence behind which rises mountain

where upon some rocky cliff

trying to install a communications reflector

a ranger fell to his death

though we may have wished it

the mountain did not move

 

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