Rod McKuen - Flight Plan


8th & 9th October, 2005 Rod in Concert Holland, December 2005! San Sebastian Strings albums now available on CD! Order now!		Photo by Edward McKuen 9/24/2005 A Thought for Today Wisdom lurks between the lines; it’s seldom verbalized or written down. TODAY'S RESOLUTION A day or so of doing nothing should be required work. But is it worth it to fall farther back while piles of things unattended still need tending to? A question I can’t answer and one that must stump more than just a few of us. I can’t help but think I used to work harder, faster and get more done. Looking back and reflecting on a canon of work, there is some. Sadly quantity doesn’t always equal quality. Today’s Resolution: Everything can’t get done. Okay, if you say so. So what gets done will have to be done a little better every day. Sounds like a plan. - R.M. 10/3/98 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 8 October Rona Barrett o Christian Barnard o Jill Bonney o Chevy Chase o Matt Damon o Temple Fielding o Paul Hogan o Jesse Jackson o Juan Peron o Sarah Purcell o Eddie Rickenbacker o Pepper Rodgers o R.L. Stine o Sigourney Weaver o Stephanie Zimbalist Sunday 9 October Scott Bakula o Jackson Browne o Zachery Ty Bryan o Steve Burns o Bruce Caption o Bruce Catton o Fyvush Finkel o Georgi Griffith o E. Howard Hunt o Brian Lamb o John Lennon o Sean Ono Lennon o Walter O’Malley o Aimee Semple McPherson o Michael Pare o Joe Pepitone o Eddie Rickenbacker o Howard St. John o Camille Saint-Saens o Savannah o Tony Shalhoub o Alastair Sim o Randy Spelling o Jacques Tati o Peter Tosh

		Love is more a single movement than a symphony. Contempt for people’s baser habits hinders contemplation. High fidelity to one speaker is better than stereo to two.

NIGHT MISCHIEF		A young man standing in the rain outside that so familiar window known to me because I’ve lived across the street from it too many years, too long. Known to me because it is unlike any other window, and what stays or sits or struts behind / beyond it is familiar if not known to me. My domain is not my own not because it isn’t shared although it isn’t but because it isn’t shared by her. I should have moved the day I saw her gliding up the stairs alone or later every time I saw someone coming, going beneath her balcony, down those stairs, or moving round the corner on the sidewalk or the street overtipping taxi drivers as they found the right house and dropped their passengers four feet from the door. Good woman you do me damage. Angels could not force such sense of loss upon me whatever their conspiracy. Just now the door is answered and the young man steps inside. Outside the rain still falls and not uncomfortably. Long ago I should have moved away or else I should have walked across the street myself smiled and told her how she was an interruption in my life because she lived there just the other side of it. Without the chance for real rejection she rejected me. Without a no she let me know. - From "Looking For A Friend", 1980

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