Rod McKuen - Flight Plan


13th & 14th December, 2007		Rod at Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006, 2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved. A Thought for Today Kind words are never forgotten, they reverberate down a lifetime. FROM the¨BOOKS TO YOU I'd lie down in darkness with devils and awaken with strangers that I never knew, I'd follow the hoofbeats of heartaches if I thought they would lead me To You. There's so little magic in morning butterflies in your eyes and a teardrop or two, I'd run down the dawning with danger if I could be running To You. If I cried out to God without warning who am I, where am I why am I so alone? He'd probably show me the highway leading To You and to home. There's so little magic in midnight fireflies in your eyes and a sparkle or two, I'd dance through the darkness with danger If I could be dancing To You. If love gives you life or takes lifetimes I'll give life or take life To You. - from "The Beautiful Strangers", 1981 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



		Thursday 13 December Steve Buscemi o Christie Clark o Marc Connelly o John Davidson o Tom DeLonge o Jamie Foxx o Michael James o Mary Todd Lincoln o Ross MacDonald o Clark Mills o Edwin G. Monk o Archie Moore o Ted Nugent o Larry Parks o Nicolas Petrov o Christopher Plummer o Lillian Roth o Dick Van Dyke o Richard Zanuck Friday 14 December Morey Amsterdam o Frances ("Aunt Bee") Bavier o Jane Birkin o Marilyn Cooper o Dan Dailey o Patty Duke o George Furth o Don Hewitt o Shirley Jackson o Spike Jones o Abbe Lane o Nostradamus o Michael Owen o Lee Remick o Charlie Rich o Geraldine Robinson o Margaret Chase Smith o Carol Widel

		The most that we can do for one another is care. There is no such thing as an excess of benevolence. I am not convinced that truth alone can make us free, but I believe it a beginning and a final resting place.

INVITATION		I’ve seen so many Merry Xmas signs with Christ squeezed out by laziness or the printer’s economic need. The outrage that it once produced has almost found its way into the attic with nineteen-sixty’s broken toys. (Had I not the faces of small children to mirror Christ for me all year long I might believe God dead, or sleeping anyway. Though I doubt there lives a Lucifer who could make September leaves to fall or set the tails of dogs to wagging.) God is living in the mountains, a recluse from some people’s hearts. but he’d drop by smiling in the chilly night and celebrate his first son’s birthday if we cared enough to keep the porch light on. -from “The Carols of Christmas,”1971. First published in Woman’s Day, 1969

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