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Photo by
Edward Habib McKuen. ©2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives
A Thought for Today
Purpose and will can move you through the darkest times.
FROM the¨BOOKS
STATE BEACH
He turned
and moved to go into the water
she followed close behind.
The sun caught the color of her hair
and the bronze of his legs
and I caught them both
held them in my gaze
till they were out of sight
splashing in the sun
lost in the waves.
I think I have never been in love more than now
here on a native beach
watching other lovers
do familiar things and make familiar love.
I think I have never missed you more.
And as the last October sun
goes beyond the ocean to its resting place
and the umbrellas are folded
the rumpled pants and rumpled dresses
slipped over the wet bathing suits,
the sound of a Tokyo spring
echoes in my ears
I walk with you down dark streets
and the rain comes down like tears.
-from "Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows,"
1966.
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Saturday 25 November
Christina Applegate o
Steve Brodie o
Andrew Carnegie o
Solanus Casey o
Kathryn Grant Crosby o
Bucky Dent o
Joe DiMaggio o
Helen Gahagan Douglas o
Amy Grant o
Haiken Hagegard o
Jeffrey Hunter o
Wilheim Kempf o
John F. Kennedy, Jr. o
Jessie Royce Landis o
John Larroquette o
Ricardo Montalban o
Carry Nation o
Murray Schisgal o
Ben Stein o
Virgil Thomson
Sunday
26 November
John Carter o
Olivia Cole o
William Cowper o
Cyril Cusack o
Frances Dee o
Lefty Gomez o
Robert Goulet o
Linda Hunt o
Eugene Ionesco o
Eugene Istomin o
Scott Jacoby o
Adele Jergens o
Shawn Kemp o
Rich Little o
Lorene Lortie o
Jacki McDonald o
John McVie o
Marian Mercer o
Charles M. Schulz o
Eric Sevareid o
Betta St. John o
Tina Turner o
Marcy Walker o
Earl Wilde o
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Thank You isn't good enough, but it's a start.
Courage like cowardliness is contagious, but only the brave seem to catch it.
The wicked are the first to decry other men's vices.
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As often as I've lain beneath
the Southern sun in late November,.
I still cannot accept it as a summer month.
Bare bellies at the beach,
brown shoulders in the city square
conspire with pale-cheeked women,
young men in Speedo's
sprinting through the sand,
and Sydney smiles of every kind
to beat me down into believing
that seasons can be changed by winks
Oh you summer coming in
(that I am just now learning)
reach out and help me if you can.
Consider all the summers I befriended.
And now consider, if you will
befriending me.
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