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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Friday, January 14, 2022

origami family

 

January 14, 2012  (I was 67) 

 

         origami family

Folds in the single sheet of paper

create the geometrical planes we name

as individual shapes existing at angled

relationships to one another reflecting

varied shades of light ever more

intricately multi-plying patterns

one fold crosses another fold

as if they were separate entities

moving in opposite directions

through the origami universe

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