A hand written journal page numbered 124I and titled “124I and One Half, In Woodbury, Minnesota, Writing Upon Waterbury, Vermont” obviously contains many unwritten stories of fine human beings at play upon earth in between each written page from the journal of those early days of my life combined with one from today recollecting and remembering the unwritten stories of those early and formative days of my life and the lives of my love ones.
I accidentally skipped a page in my writing which resulted in an extra two page spread hidden between pages 124I and 124J, so I numbered it with an extra one half.
10/3/78 explosion at Conoco refinery in Commerce City, Colorado
10/9/79 first snow in Barre, Vermont
I wish I had made more location entries in my early writings. Let this be a lesson to all journal writers, avoid lamentations from future years of life for a few more location entries to permit the remembrance of times past fulfilling deep and powerful soulful needs of being a human living upon earth:
RULE: make plenty of location entries in yoiur journal, especially during times of transition
RULE: Write even when you don’t want to. Don’t do what I did and have to stare back at huge gaps you wish you had filled with memories.
12/17/79 Creativity exists in the distallation of reality into words and works. Once created the creation stands in utter simplicity. A statement of reality. Copyable by many. Yet the joy of the creator in achieving that expression of the realm of God into the realm of man.
2/17/80 1980 Edition of Encyclopedia Britannica is reality
6/1/80 Writer’s Workbench
1/21/81 Government Home Loan Program that lends money to home buyers at a constant 5% interest rate, thereby bringing stability and staving off the predatory banks on this most holy ground of human life–home ownership–a core value of human existence
3/15/1981 my birthday, Mom called to tell me that Grandma had died ay 7:15 AM in Billings, Montana
4/12/81 wife_v1.8 attends Barretone Retreat in Waterbury Center, Vermont
8/9/81 Author’s Workbench
7/30/82 Done workig for MPR. Halleluliah!!!
10/16/82 Moving day into the new house in Waterbury, Vermont
11/14/82 Wood arrives. Finally feel moved in and stable again.
We had moved into our Waterbury home into the duplex home rented to us by Betsy and Andy who lived there as our next door neighbors. Across Randall Street lived our special friends Marion and Evan. Waterbury was nearer to our special friends Olga and Ed who lived in Burlington.
