Rod McKuen - Flight Plan


WEDNESDAY Click on the logo below to visit the all new Stanyan House web site as well as the new Stanyan Bar & Grille Message Board		A Thought for Today Romance is a way of transcending the ordinary. It is an ethic of its own. This One Does It For Me! More than three years after his passing Charles Schultz is greatly missed by millions of people around the world. Were he still with us he would have celebrated his birthday today and I thought it would be nice to pause and remember him by looking back at a couple of McKuen/Schultz related pieces. Here's what Rod had to say shortly after Charles passed away. "There was no one like him. If you were a friend you were always a friend. He was never too busy to take a telephone call or make one if he thought you might need cheering up. He once read a review of "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" where a critic took exception to my songs calling them "too sentimental." Fearing I'd read it too, he dropped me a note to say "The important thing is, I love those songs." Peanuts is always the first stop in my morning paper and often I'd read a strip I particularly liked and I'd let him know. In a few days the mail would arrive with the original, suitably signed. After awhile I became too embarrassed to compliment him. When Sparky announced his retirement I wrote that I was glad for him. He hadn't been well and as much joy as his daily visits with Charlie and the gang brought him, imagining their adventures then putting them down on paper for all of us to enjoy, was hard work. "And anyway," I wrote, "thanks to the thousands of strips he'd already committed to paper we'd never be without our daily dose of "Peanuts."" And we never will". Rod McKuen, February 24, 2000 And there are no prizes for guessing which song I've chosen to be featured today! If you have a favorite McKuen poem, song or story to relate drop me a line at kenb@mckuen.com and I'll include your letter in this column one Wednesday soon. - Ken, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 26 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



		Lefty Gomez o Robert Goulet o Eugene Ionesco o Eugene Istomin o Scott Jacoby o Shawn Kemp o Rich Little o Lorene Lortie o Jacki McDonald o Marian Mercer o Charles Schulz o Eric Sevareid o Tina Turner o Emlyn Williams

		Love finds beauty in the plainest smile. Women young and old need freedom from men’s conceptions of them. Seek out truth until all avenues have been exhausted.

A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN		Like the shadows of the morning that climb up to the August afternoon Charlie has a way of picking up the day just by walking slowly in a room. Maybe it's a kind of magic only little boys can do but seeing Charlie smile can make you stop awhile and get you feeling glad you're you. He's only a boy named Charlie a boy named Charlie Brown he's just the kid next door perhaps a little more he's every kid in every town. The world is full of lots of people here and there and all around but people after all start out as being small we're all a boy named Charlie Brown. The world is full of lots of people here and there and all around but people after all start out as being small we're all a boy named Charlie Brown. Additional Verse: Now the shadows of the morning have gone past the August afternoon and Charlie's had his way his very special day his morning and his evening and his noon. - from the album "Rod McKuen's Greatest Hits - 2"

Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith o Sound & Fury Dr. Eric Yeager o Webmaster Ken Blackie

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