Rod McKuen - Flight Plan


2nd & 3rd January, 2010		Photo by Eric Yeager Š2009 All Rights Reserved A Thought for Today Looking backward helps us to go forward with a sense of purposes. PASSING THROUGH We pass the signs the seasons and the signposts now at such a speed that pausing to reflect on what direction means grows harder year by year and yet your God and mine daily holds His breath expecting us to listen and to care about each other. Across the fields beyond the highways and each ocean, I reach out to you hoping I’ll be welcomed by another outstretched hand. For each day in the year just starting and all those days in the years ahead I wish you love and reason in your life and most of all the feeling and reality of our friendship. - from "The Beautiful Strangers", 1981 Click on the Stanyan House logo to buy Rod McKuen books, CD's and lots more Click on the heart logo to subscribe to the Rod McKuen mailing list Catch Rod McKuen live! Click on the links below for details of concerts and appearances. ROD McKUEN CONCERTS ROD McKUEN APPEARANCES



		Saturday 2 January Isaac Asimov o Jim Bakker o Bill Bradley (football) o Tia Carrere o Gabrielle Carteris o Taye Diggs o Jason Evers o Dick Feller o Cuba Gooding, Jr. o Dennis Hastert o Julius LaRosa o James Melton o Roger Miller o Lucretia Mott o Robert Nathan o Sally Rand o Joseph Stalin o Renata Tebaldi o Christy Turlington o Vera Zorina Sunday 3 January Maxine Andrews o Clement Attlee o Victor Borge o Helena Bonham Carter o Joan Chen o Cicero o Father Joseph Damien de Veuster o Marion Davies o Betty Furness o Mel Gibson o Bobby Hull o Josephine Hull o John Paul Jones o Sergio Leone o Robert Loggia o George Martin o Danica McKeller o Ray Milland o Pola Negri o Van Dyke Parks o Anna Pavlova o ZaSu Pitts o Victoria Principal o Michael Schumacher o Stephen Stills o John Sturges o J.R.R. Tolkien o Bill Travers o Jesse White o Anna May Wong

		I wish you heady harvests every day of every year, no unsure hours or sleepless nights, and happiness enough to make the valleys of New England and the verdant hills of France forever green inside your heart. A toast to everything that touched us all year long – friends newly met, old friends here and old friends gone but still remembered. By leaning on someone you love, you help to hold them up.

THANKSGIVING		I appreciate your time and your indulgence, God, because I give so little of my time to you. I thank you for an unstubbed toe this month and leaving me with no more bruises on a tired and battered heart than those I started out with. Sometimes tied up in traffic I’m grateful for commercials on the radio that take me from the just-announced war dead and carry me back home to other murders (those of animals and men who’ve not yet had a chance at aping angels). It’s then I wonder where my God is lurking, that savior of senior citizens and seals. The traffic breaks. The news is over to the tune of Mendelssohn. Only then do I remember that you’re not my uncle just my God. I thank you for your kind indulgence and your time. -from “The Carols of Christmas,” 1969, 1971

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