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Rod on Maui, August 2003.
Photo by John Scoggins.
©2003 by Stanyan Entertainment.
A Thought for Today
Expectations are a
trap as surely as the flame.
UNSEEN
What goes on unseen
untold to us
by one the other
is more real
than all the sentences
our senses spoke
and speak.
I see your face and know
a tilting of your shoulder
speaks whole paragraphs aloud,
whole stories filled with proof
that what is happening
is if anything a willful lie
both of us indulge in.
This much is fact.
You do not amaze me
with your dark indifference.
You never once astound me
by being only what
I wish you to be.
I await the crumbs
just now
delighted that they come
from bread lifted out of ovens
by some hidden master baker.
Yes
the whole thing
would be beautiful.
All pretense
not pretended anymore.
But you are here sometimes
that is enough for you
and by necessity
must be enough for me.
Keep sleeping
stay silent hours more.
You're here
these kind of moments are enough.
- from Folio #1, Spring 1974
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THURSDAY 13th NOVEMBER
Hermione Baddeley
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Nathaniel Benchley o
Edwin Booth o
Justice Louis D. Brandeis o
Linda Christian o
William Gibson o
Whoopi Goldberg o
Richard Lucus o
Joe Mantegna o
Dack Rambo o
Bruce Samazan o
Alexander Scourby o
Jean Seberg o
Robert Sterling o
Robert Louis Stevenson o
Oskar Werner
FRIDAY 14th NOVEMBER
St. Augustine o
Travis Barker o
Stephen Bishop o
Charles, Prince of Wales o
Aaron Copland o
Rosemary De Camp o
Chris Demetral o
Johnny Desmond o
Mamie Eisenhower o
Robert Fulton o
Nina Gordon (Smashing Pumpkins) o
King Hussein of Jordan o
Barbara Hutton o
George S. Kaufmani o
Brian Keith o
Veronica Lake o
Marya Mannes o
Senator Joseph McCarthy o
Claude Monet o
Jawaharlal Nehru o
Jim Piersall o
Dick Powell o
Leonie Rysanek o
Harrison Salisbury o
McLean Stevenson o
D.B. Sweeney o
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The protection of nature is man’s only insurance policy.
Hate wastes everybody’s time.
Morality is essential to everything.
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TWO POEMS FROM
"MOMENT TO MOMENT" |
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In Case You Didn’t Know
Some days up ahead
will come down empty
and some years fuller
than the fullest one
we’ve known before.
Today has been
the best day yet.
I thought
you ought to know that,
and I thought it time
that I said thank you
for whatever might have
passed between us
that in your mind
you might have felt
missed my attention.
It didn’t
and it doesn’t
and it won’t.
Thank you
for the everydays
that you make
into holidays.
I close up
more often now,
not just to you
but even to myself
within myself.
I know I should
be always open.
At least I ought to make
a
better try.
I will.
Had I the Courage of One
Some distance there is
between my back
and this new morning.
Had I the courage of one
I’d turn you around.
Had I the courage of five
I’d turn you around inside you
pulling all the dark earth
with me.
Had I the courage of ten
we’d start so much together
that we’d never have the time
to finish even one thing started.
Had I the courage of one hundred
I’d stand back and look at you.
That’s all.
Moving away, moving away,
gone you are while yet arriving.
Had I the courage of one
I’d run beside you or behind you.
Instead I run away.
So it is we’ve started out
on this new day together
to travel parallel paths
in opposite directions.
- from "Moment To Moment", 1973, 1974, 1975 |
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