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A Thought for Today

If our past actions and mistakes don’t provide lessons for the future, what will?

 

Rod is in the studio today.

Don’t forget to join webmaster Ken tomorrow for “This One Does It For Me.”

Details of Rod's next appearance can be obtained by following the link below.

"Tap Your Troubles Away" - the music of Jerry Herman

notable birthdays

National Boss Day (US)

Max Bygraves o Chuck Colson o Linda Darnell o William O. Douglas o Flea o Gunter Grass o Jeremy Jackson o Bert Kaempfert o Angela Lansbury o John Loudon o Kelly Martin o Eugene O’Neill o Alice Pearce o Tim Robbins o C.P. Snow o Suzanne Somers o Morgan Stevens o Noah Webster o Oscar Wilde

Rod's random thoughts Loss is something to be gotten over in preparation for the gain up coming.

Only those inside its funnel fully comprehend the hurricane.

The leanest naked body is the work of God and therefore a love object.

A LETTER NEVER SENT

Some nights your sighs
do not tear up the blackness
on other nights they boil it down
               to nothing.
It comes and goes.
A quarrel over lovers,
a dare not taken up.
Love, a cup half full,
not filling up again.

By what divining light
does heat turn into mildew ?
Where does the blurring start
between providence and progress ?

Ever up ahead
       another river road.
Another blank page to be filled
and one more beating heart,
someone would like to stop,
       that won’t be stilled.
And this is but another letter
that I never sent
and never meant to.

-from “Suspension Bridge,” 1984

 
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Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith
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