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, October 10, 2021

You don’t have to get very high

 

October 10, 2005  (I was 60)  used year 1, 3, 5

 

You don’t have to get very high

to realize how low we live

 

the nearest hill will do

a natural inclination puts you above man-made

 

Sit in dappled shade

and solve a problem slowly

 

To carry the hill home

build your house upon it

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