I just finished another notebook one of those blank books
mostly sketchbooks that I adopted as a means of journaling back in 1980
Prior to that I used the typewriter or hand wrote in those
spiral books required at school.
I like the sketchbooks the hardcover ones because it's like writing
a book
The problem is that eventually you have to retype it into a
computer
And I am at an age where I can't possibly transcribe
everything I've written for the last 50 years or more
So, I'm doing what I did back in 1980 as an alternative when
I had an Atari writer
Problem with that is a few years later Atari writers went
the way the dodo and I had to switch to IBM or Apple
Unfortunately Atari Rider files were not translatable so I
had to print out everything and the result was I had to transcribe them anyway
So with the end of what has to be like 100 notebooks of this
kind I've decided to go back to typing it in directly even though the writing
is not as good
How this relates to this journal is that somewhere in these
handwritten journals over the last few years I have inserted stuff about our
poet and so I will have to transcribe those first and put them here
The fact is that these journals reflect a period in time
which I can never get back and yet I relive when I reread them
That's one of the reasons why posting all of the old poems
and essays about her because it's a kind of reliving a moment the good and the
bad and reflecting on them
Anyway I have been remiss in posting anything recently
partly cuz work has been so crazy
I hope to remedy that shortly
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