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, February 28, 2022

Field Guide to Birds of North America

 

from this week in 2017  (I was 72)

 

Field Guide to Birds of North America

Copyright 1966 in Racine Wisconsin

owned by Francie Austen Yoshinoga

Camden Maine 1974  Sold to me

by Kona Bay Bookstore in Hawaii 2014

and transported to Pleasanton California

It’s pages have a lot of wings

Commonly known as a Golden Press Paperback

with identifications of sky blue breast markings

a belly of variegated blues with touches of red and white

It’s back is unmarked and entirely beige

Judging its compact sturdy structure

I would not doubt the possibility of long life

with further extended flights

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