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, May 15, 2022

Beginning the Overwhelming

 

May 15, 2013  (I was 68)

 

   Beginning the Overwhelming

Some images are iconic

portrayed in literary and dramatic arts

jumping on a moving carousel

speeding at you and flying away

catching a moving train

leaping from a horse to a stagecoach

or onto its galloping team

stepping out the door in a driving storm

making the momentous phone call

the first step on the green mile

the setting of life against powerful oppression

The gut-wrenching undertaking

always hinges on catching the momentum

a confident turn and grab-jump

doing an Einstein relatively speaking

gaining a foothold on the thought system

and a stomach for the motion

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