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, March 27, 2022

We like things to come in groups of one

 

March 27, 2012  (I was 67)

   

We like things to come in groups of one

one fish on the line is perfectly fine

one heart makes a valentine

 

We are undone wanting but one within the One

a sense of humor to exclude passion

no fabric beneath the fashion

 

We fear to know one and one and one are not three

but a larger One as you and I are We

Inside we know each one makes One grow

 

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