10th & 11th December, 2005
Rod in Concert
Holland, December 2005!
San Sebastian Strings
albums now available on CD! Order
now!
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Rod at BB Kings 5/17/02 Photo by Jay Hagan
A Thought for Today
You will grow more if you attempt to travel with giants.
I'd like to think the
photograph above is pretty much what Holland concert goers will see this
weekend in Utrecht.
Should be a lot of fun and I
hope it doesn't snow!
-Ken, Johannesburg, South
Africa, December 10
FROM the¨BOOKS
SNOW
I’ve tried to make a diary
entry out of snow. It melts as quickly as it’s put to paper. Why I wonder? Denver
winters are a fact of life. Amsterdam has turned my ear a dozen kinds of red in as many
years. Just how the snow came down in Washington and Edmonton and Portland, long ago, is
easily remembered.
London: when the first flake falls half the city’s given to pretending it’s the
first time ever. Therein lies the clue. Like a half-forgotten joke, surprises lose their
awe, relived, retold.
If I could talk with truth about Detroit, or all those years in Elko, I’d have
fantasies and truths to fill a volume, but snow melts in the telling.
- from "Come To Me In Silence," 1973
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Saturday 10 December
Dan Blocker o
Kenneth Branagh o
Randall 'Tex' (Thump, Thump) Cobb o
Susan Dey o
Emily Dickinson o
Cesar Francko
Harold Gould o
Morton Gould o
John Hammond Sr. o
Chet Huntley o
Tommy Kirk o
Dorothy Lamour o
Professor Longhair o
Gloria Loring o
Victor McLaglen o
Una Merkel o
Oliver Messiaen o
Dennis Morgan o
Richard Oliver o
Nia Peeples o
Tommy Rettig o
Johnny Rodriquez o
Jack Scalia o
Don Sebesky o
Yuri Temirkanov
Sunday
11 December
Bess Armstrong o
Hector Berlioz o
Ron Carey o
Stein Eriksen o
Teri Garr o
David Gates o
Lynda Day George o
Tom Hayden o
Jermaine Jackson o
Fiorello LaGuardia o
Brenda Lee o
Jean Marias o
Thomas McGuane o
Victor McLaglen o
Donna Mills o
Rita Moreno o
Carlo Ponti o
Alexander Solzhenitsyn o
Rider Strong o
Big Mama Thornton o
Jean-Louis Trintignant o
Ken Wahl o
Matt Wheeler o
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The selfish cheat
themselves.
Quips, like cameras, are always at the ready.
Your tongue will never influence anyone, until you learn to
influence your tongue.
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FLYING IN THE FACE OF GOD
for Andy Anderson
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In a biplane once
while flying higher
than I thought I could
I half expected to meet God
behind each cloud
I passed.
God with the face
of Father Christmas
would be smiling
or frowning with a frown
I bet I knew.
We didn't meet
but that is not to say
we didn't touch
or that we didn't
pass by close.
I have the courage now
to one day fly
through air so thin
only God could live there
with any certainty.
If I fall back down again
a hand of sure direction
will have pushed me.
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