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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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Testing Teacher

 

April 14, 1973  (I was 28)

 

         Testing Teacher

 

Let’s put up a front of educational freedom

Let’s offer alternatives within the scope of our goals

Let’s give our charged subjects choices

Let them assume we care even if we cannot

(After all we know we should)

If we let them truly choose

they may shock us with their acumen

They may find us unaware

They may leave us holding our IQ tests

and run off to measure the air

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