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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Friday, July 8, 2022

No god ever stated his will

 

July 8, 2004  (I was 59) 

No god ever stated his will

nor instructions for mankind

in any book composed by man

All inspiration for any written word

is as sacred as any other

Any claims of divine right

to truth to land to favoritism

or future promise are false

Ordination of things to come  

are fabrications of ego

as are claims of doing god’s work

Faith is the tool by which some impose belief

when rational argument fails

Ritual is the glue of reinforced unity

To use god as justification

for ideology or action or restriction

is a manifestation of greed

Reasons for adopting civil behavior

are more immediate than eternal payoffs

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