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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Monday, January 24, 2022

Old Home movies recorded the artifice

 

January 24, 2012  (I was 67)

 

Old Home movies recorded the artifice

we put in front of the camera

Even subjects caught candidly

viewed at this later date are characters

not the realities we thought they were

Their extemporaneous gestures have been exposed

For generations Hollywood caught wide emotion in Cinemascope

while our family demeanors captured the small screen  

awkward impromptu interpretations of acting

No more!  Home theaters Make Everything Epic!

One reality is as real as the other

With electronic edits added music and voice over

we can make it as unreal as it is supposed to be

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