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       HOLIDAY WEEKEND

Rod & KubbyKat Too: Photo by Bob Gentry 4/26/2000

A Thought for Today

Kindness is in short supply so any show of it is mighty.

 

Have a safe, healthy and happy labor day weekend . . .

Pass it along. Love, RM

notable birthdays Box Car Willie o Edgar Rice Burroughs o Yvonne De Carlo o Alan Dershowitz o Gloria Estefan o Vittorio Gassman o Barry Gibb o Engelbert Humperdinck o George Maharis o Rocky Marciano o Marilyn Miller o Walter Reuther o Leonard Slatkin o Lily Tomlin o Conway Twitty o Don Wilson
Rod's random thoughts September is the edge of hope and sometimes it's the center. Travel through it carefully but with ease.

Never come up to an existing standard, always move ahead.

September is the turning point, the time that takes us home.

POINT OF REFERENCE

Time is nothing without clocks.
Break the wristwatch
and the aging still continues
but time grows muddled
                         and confused.
Pull the blind on sunshine
and the dark will keep us
in the middle of the night.
Without a calendar
we have only the cold to show us
when the first full winter day
                                      arrives.

The engine coughs, wheezes, stops,
the heart within the body
                            shrinks or slows
then finally halts,
the traffic light still works
or fails on unseen meters
based on timing and on time.
Time is nothing
                              without clocks.

                      -from "We Touch the Sky," 1979, 1980

© 1979, 1980, 2000 by Stanyan Music Group & Rod McKuen. All Rights Reserved
Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith
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