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13th & 14th November, 2006 Catch Rod live in December - click here		Photo by Edward Habib McKuen. ©2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives A Thought for Today The protection of nature is man’s only insurance policy. FROM the¨BOOKS 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 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



		Monday 13 November Hermione Baddeley o 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 Tuesday 14 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 Martha Tilton

		Morality is essential to everything. Hate wastes everybody’s time. Expectations are a trap as surely as the flame.

A LION IN THE STREETS OF JO'BURG for Derek Hannan & Richard Sassoon, June 14, 1975		There is a lion in the streets of Jo'burg. Head high he slouches padding down the pavement proud, untroubled by the traffic not timid or intimidated by the lesser beasts. Fenced in by the concrete delicately he threads his way along the color line confused at times but never condescending. Proud lion of the street and city sidewalk you've made your lair Johannesburg like no other place, circled by green hills even in the wintertime. Two million sophisticated savages have helped you hew from gold dumps and flat fields a city not a town in over eighty years. I think sometimes the tourist and the townships ignore or just forget that this young city cannot be expected to be everybody's dream at once. Perhaps it is enough that for some citizens dreams do come true. Perfection takes a little time but it is worth the wait. For one day the lion in the streets of Jo'burg will lie down with the gentle Springbok. Even now he starts to think in different ways, to wonder, and that's a start. - from Folio # 6, Summer, 1975

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