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Rod & Kubby. Photo by Bob Gentry, ©2002 by Stanyan Entertainment Group.

A Thought for Today

Each of us is quite alike in one way. We wish only to be thought of as not alike.

 

Rod is busy preparing for his last public appearance of the year and I'm sure you'll all join me in wishing him all the best for his show tonight.

It's been a great year for McKuen concert goers and 2003 promises to be even better as we gear up for the "big one" at Carnegie Hall in April. Five years ago I wouldn't have thought I'd be saying that!

More tomorrow.

 - Ken, Johannesburg, December 9

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notable birthdays Kurt Angle o Joshua Bell o Beau Bridges o Dick Butkus o John Cassavetes o Broderick Crawford o Rick Danko o Jakob Dylan o Emjay o Dame Judi Dench o Kirk Douglas o Morton Downey, Jr. o Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. o Redd Foxx o Hermione Gingold o Margaret Hamilton o Buck Henry o Deacon Jones o Emmett Kelly o David Kersh o Joe Lando o John Malkovich o Dina Merrill o John Milton o Donny Osmond o Elizabeth Schwarzkopf o Dick Van Patten
Rod's random thoughts The way to be your own best friend is to care about others.

The triumph of principles is the shortest route to understanding.

As war is but a breath away from peace, so too contentment is the last door entered.

ONE SEA IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER

 I am always being pulled by love
not only bed and bodies
but a city here,
               a red sail there.
A beach town
or some seaport city
always opens up her arms
in welcome to me.

I am now
the product of those
                 many oceans
the sea is all I know
                     for sure
but I know it well.

If the sea
did not make me
             by hand
it rubbed me, rolled me
out of darkness
            into light.
For I have seen
my past and future
on the white caps
dancing out beyond
a thousand shorelines.

I have recognized
              my face
swimming in the shallows,
my body blundering
through the gray-white foam.
My life has sailed
so far out past the tide
it’s now beyond
my own far-reaching reach.

The sea makes something
out of nothing every day,
by the running in
and running back
of the tide alone.

And with the aid
of but a little sand
it polishes and hones
the bottom of the world
                    twice daily.

Once ocean for me
is not like any other
except to say
that each has given comfort
              when I need it,
love when there was none
                        forthcoming
from another quarter,
peace if I stayed long enough
to wait for it or seek it out.  

                            - from "The Sea Around Me, " 1974, 1975
 
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Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith o Sound & Fury Dr. Eric Yeager o Webmaster Ken Blackie
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