24th & 25th October, 2005
Rod in Concert
Holland, December 2005!
San Sebastian Strings
albums now available on CD! Order
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Photo by Edward McKuen 9/24/2005
A Thought for Today
Faith needn’t be blind to be effective.
TO BEGIN WITH
Today Brenda and Eric Yeager begin the first day of their eighth year of
married life. Here’s something I wrote for them on their wedding day 7
years ago.
A FLIGHT FROM6THE
PAST
No Seven-Year Itch.
23
October, 1998: FOR ERIC & BRENDA
Be good to each other. Love
and trust each other. Be friends. Everything else in a life together
will take care of itself. Taking someone into your heart is easy,
sharing your life with one person a bit harder.
Marriage is a compromise of individual personalities that finally merge
as one. It’s an exciting, often frustrating, beautiful, demanding,
wonderful, wonderful journey. The disappointments will be many but there
will be joys that will make you forget the hardships.
Is it all worth it? You bet. No one ought to be alone in life. Solo is
always more difficult than true partnership. I envy the lessons you will
learn together and I join in your happiness today. Again, always be
friends. Friendship will see you through everything.
Happy Anniversary & Love from the Safe Place to Land & Stanyan House
family.
- RM 10/20/98, 10/23/05
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Monday
24 October
United Nations Day
Labor Day (New Zealand)
Shemini Alzeret begins at Sundown
F. Murray Abraham o
Gilbert Becaud o
Luciano Berio o
Priscilla Blackie o
George Crumb o
Claudine Engbeck o
D'Marie Ewing o
Ben Gillies o
Dorothy Gray o
Moss Hart o
Kevin Kline o
Antony van Leeuwenhoek o
Mainbocher o
Monica o
David Nelson o
J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson o
Sonny Terry o
Dame Sybil Thorndike o
Y.A. Tittle o
Rafael Trujillo o
Phil Watson (hockey) o
Jack Warner o
B.D. Wong o
Bill Wyman
Tuesday
25 October
Shemini Alzeret
Simchat Torah begins at Sundown
Jon Anderson o
Billy Barty o
John Berryman o
Georges Bizet o
Michael Boatman o
Rosalyn Butt o
Richard Byrd o
Leo G. Carroll o
James Carville o
Henry Steele Commager o
Barbara Cook o
Anthony Franciosa o
Bobby Knight o
Sara Lumholdt o
Tracy Nelson o
Minnie Pearl o
Pablo Picasso o
Helen Reddy o
Marion Ross o
Russell Schweikart o
Johann Strauss o
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Without a higher source, how can we have higher aims?
Love must be the best life has to offer for
most of us are miserable without it.
Isn’t it nice to have someone to look good
for.
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GIFTS FROM THE SEA / Three |
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You see how
easily we fit together,
as if God’s own hand had cradled only us
and this beach town’s population were but two
and this wide bed but a child’s cradle
with room enough left over for presents.
Tomorrow I’ll buy you presents.
Pomegranates and breadsticks,
tickets round the room and back
and red, red roses like everybody buys everybody.
Everybody’s got a diamond ring
and Sunday shoes.
Neckties and petticoats,
pistols and tennis balls.
What pleases you?
I’d hock my watch to buy you
Greece
or sell my car to bring you rickshaws from Rangoon.
All they had down at the corner
were poppies
with some lemon leaves.
They’ll have to do
till I can bring home
Union Square.
I found a twenty-dollar bill when I was ten.
I bought a cardboard circus and a fountain pen
and a jackknife because I never had one before.
My mother thought I’d stolen the money.
I bought her perfume from the dime store,
she believed me then.
I was rich in those days,
for a week I had everything.
I wish I’d known you then.
- from Listen to the Warm & the album "The
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