After I’ve worked there almost two years, Nu-West Homes closes [because of the newly implemented National Energy Policy coupled with the effects of the recession of the early 1980s], but I'm able to find work at Trade-Aid Instant Print with Bill and Erika Anderson.
SPRING
I consider writing some sort of a novel taking place during a Calgary Stampede rodeo event which will, of course, be called Rodeo.
This still sits in my ‘to-do’ file.
APRIL
I begin a short story called Doomsday's Dawn, which I begin to serialize in the Canadian Author's Association Calgary newsletter, Hints ’n’ Prods. I never do finish this.
I write some more instruction material for Christians—Created in the Image of God, and Water Baptism and teach them at New Life Church.
5 APRIL
Tuesday
I attend the Woodward’s Short Story Contest award dinner.
7 APRIL
Thursday
For my birthday, Lana and I go to see George Maharis in I Ought to Be in Pictures
15 - 17 JULY
Friday – Sunday
I attend the 2nd All-Alberta Writer's Workshop and create a cover for the programme.
I continue to develop story material about Lady Carlinea.
I send a letter to Gold Eagle Books to see if they would be interested in a novel about Lady Carlinea.
29 - 31 JULY
Friday – Sunday
Lana and I attend the Christian Arts Conference at King’s Fold.
1 AUGUST
Monday
We move to Pineridge in northeast Calgary.
Residence:
5919 - 24 Avenue NE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
7 AUGUST
Sunday
I continue to try and market both me and my songs, this time to Praise Records, but still hit a blank wall.
I feel so very discouraged.
25 SEPTEMBER
Sunday
I begin a journal in which I want to express my thoughts and feelings as far as my life is concerned. I feel as if my dreams and aspirations have died. I begin to realize that, overall, my life feels very unfulfilled—I've tried to start so many different things, many of which never got beyond the first steps.
Although the ‘journal’ mentioned here didn’t see more than a day or two of existence, I didn’t start serious journal-writing until the end of 1985. One of the greatest regrets I’ve had is that I didn’t start writing journals earlier in my life. There is so much that I can’t remember about certain periods about which I’m sure I would have made notes back then; and there are other periods I do remember but can’t recall the year[s].
27 SEPTEMBER
Tuesday
I conceive of another theatre company—TriUnity Arts Guild—with ‘Tri’ not only pointing to the Godhead, but also the visual, literary, and performing arts. I also get nowhere with this.
I continue working on Schöpfung or ‘Creation’—Part 1 of The Revelation of Jesus Christ stage musical trilogy. I envision several themes [leitmotivs à la Richard Wagner] for various aspects of the music drama, each using a separate musical key, as well as the use of colour symbology. Again, like so many other projects, I soon put it aside.
After re-reading many of these entries here and in my journals, I’ve concluded that, in a lot of cases, I became overwhelmed by the size of my own creative concepts and just couldn’t drum up the enthusiasm to see them through to completion.
More thoughts of grandeur and the continuing identity crisis
Embryonic version of proposed newsletter
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