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Photograph by Donna Marie
Bergeniao 11/11/2003
A Thought for Today
Who is not a love
seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.
The "Dreidels and Sleigh
Bells" show this coming Monday in Los Angeles is shaping up to be a real goody for
McKuen fans.
Rod will be doing the whole of the first half while Tyne Daly and Jason
Graae share the second. Rod will be doing 17 songs in all, has written
two new ones especially for the occasion and will also be performing
"When a Child is Born," "Nothing at All" and "The Frozen Logger" for the
very first time in concert.
Sounds good to me! If you're going to be in the LA area on Monday I'd
suggest you grab yourself a ticket. Ticket information is included
below.
- Ken, Johannesburg, South
Africa, December 4
West Coast Ensemble presents…
A HOLIDAY BENEFIT FOR THE ACTORS’ FUND OF AMERICA
AND WEST COAST ENSEMBLE
Dreidels and Sleigh
Bells
With performances by
ROD McKUEN
TYNE DALY
JASON GRAAE
with Gerald Sternbach at the piano
Monday, December 8, 2003 at 8:00pm
In the Skirball Cultural Center – Magnin Auditorium
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. (Mulholland exit off the 405 Freeway) Los Angeles,
CA 90049
Ticket Prices:
GOLD: VIP seating at performance, dessert reception with the stars,
special Holiday gift $150
SILVER: Performance and dessert reception with the stars $100
BRONZE: Performance only $50
FOR RESERVATIONS, PLEASE CALL: (323) 525-0022
Actors’ Fund and West Coast Ensemble are non-profit 501c3 organizations.
A portion of your ticket price is tax-deductible.
If unable to attend and would like to make a donation, please mail your
check to:
West Coast Ensemble
c/o Jaffee & Assoc.
3151 Cahuenga Blvd. W, Suite 107 Los Angeles, CA 90068
FROM the¨BOOKS
DECEMBER POEMS from THE SOUND OF SOLITUDE
Magic / December 12
On furry fours she comes to me
tail flicking, twitching in the air,
then mental judgment firm, intact,
she jumps up on my land and lands
firm, exactly as she planned.
She pushes at my whiskered chin,
and I push back.
It’s Magic’s Welcome Home.
The non-accusing purr
is pure electric.
While I was gone
a new trick has been mastered.
She throws a round red ball
high in the air,
catches it and bats it
back and forth to Edward.
Nikki watches
like a grandstand tennis fan,
head stationary, eyes rowing left to right.
Home Ground / December 13
The house suspended change
while I was gone,
it waited.
The only way to know the lightning
is to touch the thunder on home ground.
I would not miss
a creak or crack arriving,
a single shingle
that the wind gives wings to.
Where else but home
can any man meet danger
almost as an equal?
Empty Harbor / December 14
Those of us who sleep alone
are like abandoned boats –
we become accustomed
to lack of ownership.
We believe our chosen paths
are only where the sea drift takes us.
I have come back
to where the cedar hills
wear darkness like a stocking cap,
where morning comes the way
the fish hawk comes
quickly and on silent wings –
not because I had to or so wished
but because I found myself
moving in this sure direction.
I am here still looking for you.
There are no days
when I do not seek you out,
no hours anymore when you are not
paramount
when I am not sure beyond imagining
that I will meet you in the hills
or on the street.
I never do.
But I still go and come
to places we shred first together.
I always travel alleyways we knew;
these journeys need no compass
and no graph.
They have been diagramed before
and I will go on tracking them
alone if need be.
- from "The Sound of
Solitude", 1983
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