6th
& 7th December, 2007
TODAY! - Rod McKuen
in Palm Springs!
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Rod at
Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod
McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006,
2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved.
A Thought for Today
Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.
FROM the¨BOOKS
ANAGRAM
Just as I was thinking
Old loves mean the most because of
How we cherish past as perfect,
Newness comes in running.
Here you are
Entering my life without a pause
Reaching out to me as though
My arms offered something
And I was waiting too
No caution, no resistance, no reservations.
Oh the thrill of love again
Timid, troubling. Is it worth it?
Today it is, as for tomorrow
Everything is now, tomorrow takes its turn.
- from "A Safe Place to Land", 1998
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Thursday 6 December
Debbie Armstrong o
Chelsea Brown o
Dave Brubeck o
Peter Buck o
Andrew Cuomo o
Wally Cox o
Alfred Eisenstaedt o
Lynn Fontaine o
Ira Gershwin o
Nikolaus Harmoncourt o
William S. Hart o
Tom Hulce o
Joyce Kilmer o
Don King o
Jonathan King o
Joyce Mathews o
Agnes Moorehead o
James Naughton o
David Ossman o
Wil Shriner o
Ryan White o
JoBeth Williams o
Steven Wright
Friday
7 December
Fay Bainter o
Priscilla Barnes o
Johnny Bench o
Larry Bird o
Ellen Burstyn o
Rod Cameron o
Aaron Carter o
Joyce Carey o
Willa Cather o
Harry Chapin o
Rudolf Frimi o
Herman Goetz o
Edd Hall o C.
Thomas Howell o
Ted Knight o
Gerard Kuiper o
Tino Martinez o
Mary, Queen of Scots o
Gary Morris o
Gordon Parks, Jr. o
Louis Prima o
Edmundo Ross o
Ernst Toch o
Madam Tussaud o
Tom Waits o
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God grant us kind contrition for our sins and our omissions and most of all our contradictions.
Smiles spread liberally breed satisfaction.
Accuse me of loving too much, never too little.
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GIFT WITHOUT STRINGS |
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I'll walk you
just as far
as Christmas Day
and not one hour further,
leaving you to make your way
through the winter and the springs ahead.
A gift I give you
with no ribbon or bright bow
attached to me
or a Christmas contract.
A present of reality
is made from truth
as much as it is shaped from love.
Go forward; straight ahead.
There are no limits on your life
but those barricades
you'll build yourself.
Though I give you only words
to unravel on this Christmas day
and words may not seem
such a pretty present,
if you let them work for you
one day you'll thank me
with a shinning smile
brighter than the one I'm sending
out and over
to your young face now.
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