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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Saturday, January 8, 2022

The interpretations of the influences of chance

 

January 8, 2015  (I was 70)   

 

The interpretations of the influences of chance

reading the cards or the leaves in the cup

lines in the palm or drop of the sticks

the stars the stones the kernels the shadows

the figures in the clouds and the scorch in the pan

The feces of whatever species you revere

looked at long enough makes you a seer

Pick a random book off a random shelf

cut to random words relevant to your self

Right and left brain in tandem

tell you there is no random

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