NIGHT NOTES.
I keep a small clip board fitted with half-sheets of used typing paper and one-sided junk mail pages, on which I jot notes to myself during the night. I collect them each morning and some become daily themes, while others go into a file which I raid from time to time to re-read, re-write or toss out. Here are some January 1, '01 nonsense jottings from my Night Pad....
“I have added on another pound.
I ate fish last night!Never fails.
I know it was the fish.
When weighing , I saw scales. A.L.M. Jan. 30 2001
“How do you tuna fish?
By adjusting its scales.” A.L.M many years ago
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“I swim like a fish. I flounder around a lot”. A.L.M Jan 30 '01
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“Have you ever watched a flounder
A'swimmin' in the water?
He swims by flopping up and down!
Not the way he ougther.
I've never understood
How flounders swim at all.
Goin' up and down..okay,
But, standing up he'd fall!” A.L.M. from Note Pad night of Jan 30, '0l
“A bee may thrive within the hive
But die if left outside.
A boy or girl secure at home
may fail if far they roam”.
“Hive dwellers know know they're hid
From dangers of the World.
Children must be made aware
By older folks how much they care.”
Worker bees and the royal queen
Strive to make more honey'
and skimp and save at every turn
'cause bees call honey money.
It doesn't work that way with us
Our youths grow up. Depart.
Youth finds youth .They mate and breed
A family to start. A.L.M. from Night Time note pad some time in January '0l
I want to buy a purple cow
I hope you've one more.Done.
I want to put it on my shelf '
to really prove I've really seen one!. A.L.M...... some time in Jan '01
This may prove to be a place to put some of them rather than simply tossing them in the trash.. Note pads offer good exercise in writing forcing editing, pruning, re-doing and discarding.
A.L.M. July 25, 2003 (from January 31, 2001file] [c512ds]