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, August 19, 2022

The perception of the act is the act

 

from this week in August, 1998  (I was 53)

 

The perception of the act is the act

The individual reality is the perception

Whether the act itself is an individual reality

is unknown beyond perception

 

Your perception of the act is one act

My perception of the act is another act

The perceptions involve physical equipment

light eye nerve brain

The perceptions involve intent

involve motive involve introspective capability

involve the weather

So the act itself

as a measurement of forces

is an unsettling exercise

 

Whether I acted out of obligation

Ignorance enthusiastic self interest

love self-defense regret or hope

is lost in the hard-polished stones of perception

in the blinding reflections off one another

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