SOME OF THE BEST:
9TH JUNE, 1998 |
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A Thought for Today
The supply of love
will never exceed the demand, but it should.
THE GREAT ADVENTURE
One day you wake up sure beyond all wondering that deadlines are the food of stress. Other people's stopping places. Other people's
deadlines. Other people's No, you can't. Yes, you must. If you are of good fortune or among the favored few, somewhere between the last pay check and the head exploding, you come upon sweet solitude in all its joy and finery. It is then you understand at once that here is finally friend and lover you went seeking long ago. If not true friend then compliment to same. And no less a lover than the last your arms go 'round as God administers the final count. Stress by any handle, tension or tomorrow is the enemy of reason, betrayer of each confidence and harbinger of every trouble laid at the feet of time. Who can sing of solitude enough? Why do we fear the word? Perhaps the answer is the question. Must there always be a why and a why not? Only if within the blood there is no sense of daring-do. Stress will always be the chain that holds us back from solitude, the great adventure.
- from Folio #40 , 1983
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FOR JO ON HER BIRTHDAY |
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I am grateful for the stars
that circle in the sky,
gentleness whenever
and wherever I find it.
An easier life
than I ever deserved.
Unexpected love and
unplanned lasting
friendships.
A God that’s always
been there.
And best of all
your voice floating
over good and bad days,
rich and not so rich times.
Assuring us that whatever
happens down a lifetime
as people, as friends,
as those who love or
never know love,
we mustn’t say goodbye;
Not without a smile,
some show of kindness.
or a wave that passes
through eternity.
- Rod McKuen 11/12/98 |
