3rd & 4th July, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July autograph signing event.
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A Thought for Today

One sure test of freedom is how much command you have over your own life.

 

TO BEGIN WITH

As America starts its long birthday weekend all of us connected with The Flight Plan, A Safe Place to Land and Stanyan House wish all of you who make our flights of fancy possible; peace, good fortune and good health whether this is a summer or winter day for you. Up over, down under or out yonder, wherever you are we’re with you.

HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
AMERICA!

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notable birthdays

THURSDAY 3 July

Roger Ailes o Alan Autry o Laura Branigan o Betty Buckley o Earl Butz o Jack Carter o George M. Cohan o Michael Cole o Tom Cruise o Brigatte Fassbinder o Pete Fountain o Walt Garrison o Thomas Gibson o Roger Horchow o Franz Kafka o Dorothy Kilgallen o Carlos Kleiber o Johnny Lee o Johnny Palmer o Susan Peters o Geraldo Rivera o Ken Russell o George Sanders o Tom Stoppard o Montel Williams

FRIDAY 4 July
INDEPENDENCE DAY, USA

Louis Armstrong o Lawrence P. Ashmead o Stephen Boyd o Irving Caesar o Calvin Coolidge o Stephen Foster o Giuseppe Garibaldi o Rube Goldberg o Virginia Graham o Nathanial Hawthorne o Ann Landers o Gertrude Lawrence o Gina Lollobrigida o Louis B. Mayer o Mitch Miller o George Murphy o Jeannie Pierce o Geraldo Rivera o Tokyo Rose o Eva Marie Saint o Neil Simon o George Steinbrenner o Gloria Stuart o Abigail Van Buren o Dennis Weaver o Bill Withers

Rod's random thoughts The hand has no firmer grip than what it gives to handshakes.

These days only truth is revolutionary.

Since when has conscience been unpatriotic?

AMERICAN STRAND
-for Chuck Ashman

A wondrous thing it is to have
       a country you can love,
a field to lie with,
hill to hike,
a patch of woods so honorable
it stands as its own creed.
Cities too within the land
that belch and puff and bubble up
mixing native / foreign colors
               of its people,
each contributing.

It is a healthy wondrous thing
to have a country you can love.

He who loves his country first has
time for children and for walking,
talking in his sleep, rolling down a hill,
and finding one who supersedes all
                                    other loves.

Time will take the patriot on an endless
journey and it will seem like overnight.
His list of pursuits can challenge
The new math and still his mind will stay
                                     uncluttered.

If you would put yourself, your house
in order, try thinking of your country
first, and you will learn that order is
                 the secret of selectivity.

Believe it. Try it, anyway.

It is a wondrous thing to have
                      a country you can love.

-from Rusting in the Rain, 2003

 
    AND FINALLY

If you can afford to drive over the holidays, drive carefully. Play safely and don’t play with matches –– and you might think of adding another ice cube to every drink you are about to down. All good preparations for a safe and sane holiday.

The weekend promises another session of questions and answers on Ask Rod so I hope you’ll join me again. Sleep warm.

RM / Holmby Hills, CA July 2, 2008 6:52PM PDST

 
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