15th & 16th 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

Fields of wonder are the places God goes walking in.

 

FROM the¨BOOKS

CONSCIENCE

The world holds dangers
darker than the dentist's chair
love is still the eye
of anything worthwhile
                  or worth having
and so we keep that one eye open.

And knowing that it goes by
multitudes of attitudes and names
it's wise to learn and not forget
the favorite name for love is conscience.

Conscience being the first thing
Christ conceived for us
must mean love is Christmas
by another name.

-from "The Carols of Christmas," 1971

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Saturday 15 December

Maxwell Anderson o Jeff Chandler o Dave Clark o Tim Conway o Alexandre Eiffel o J. Paul Getty o Friedensreich Hundertwasser o Don Johnson o Yvonne Keller o Rose Maddox o Karen Morrow o Emperor Nero o Muriel Rukeyser o Gladys Shelley o Helen Slater o Jerry Wallace

Sunday 16 December

Benny Andersson o Jane Austen o Ludwig van Beethoven o David Ben-Gurion o Steven Bochco o Leonid Brezhnev o Tom Brookshier o Arthur C. Clarke o Noel Coward o Ben Cross o Billy Gibbons o Michael McCary o Margaret Mead o William "Refrigerator" Perry o George Santayana o Lesley Stahl o Jon Tenney o Liv Ullmann
Rod's random thoughts

God not only expects us to get along together, but to get on with it--living, loving one another, and moving toward His good grace.     

-from "An Outstretched Hand"

I think about the distance to doubt and I find it's too far to go.

We spend our entire lives amassing experience only to finally be told we're too old for the job.

SANTA TO SANTA
(the 1981 Christmas Card)

 To each woman
and each man
who live and run
on God’s green ground
all birds that float
within His perfect sky
and every creature
scrambling, standing, loping,
                                 turning
on or deep within His earth –
and out upon his many seas,
a wish for their protection
      for still another year.

And each to each
within their circle
                  and their species
love enough to see them through
their deepest darkest nights.

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