28th & 29th October, 2006
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Photo by
Edward Habib McKuen. ©2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives
A Thought for Today
It is not possible to love fully and not be in receipt of more than you have given.
FROM the¨BOOKS
TURNING POINT
The road turns here,
up ahead you see it
dissolving in the dust.
I would have you now
dissolving into me
suspended,
held aloft
by my arms only.
Hanging on
but letting go.
The sky
is cloudless here
look above
and you can see it
blue on blue,
bareheaded
and not breathing.
I would wish for you
the same clear
cloudless eye
seeking mine
straightforwardly and true
not breathing
and bareheaded
as I breathe my way
through you.
The sun
is friendly here
look just left
and you can see it
warm but kindly
so and clearly caring.
I would ask of you
that you be ever warm
willing to be kind
not letting me forget
that kindness is the passport
and the proven way
for two to journey through
a lifetime, each other,
or a single summer's day.
- from "Come To Me in Silence," 1973
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Saturday 28 October
Jane Alexander o
Captain James Cook o
Charlie Daniels o
Desiderius Erasmus o
Dennis Franz o
Bill Gates o
Dody Goodman o
Howard Hanson o
Edith Head o
Neal Hefti o
Lauren Holly o
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Elsa Lanchester o
Bruce Morton o
Suzy Parker o
Joaquin Phoenix o
Joan Plowright o
Annie Potts o
Julia Roberts o
Dr. Jonas Salk o
Evelyn Waugh
Sunday
29 October
Daylight Savings Time Ends (Canada & USA)
Summer Time Ends (EU)
James Boswell o
Fanny Brice o
Geraldine Brooks o
Hadda Brooks o
Richard Dreyfuss o
Joely Fisher o
Ben Foster o
Josef Goebbels o
Kate Jackson o
Randy Jackson o
Bill Mauldin o
Melba Moore o
Amit Paul o
Leon Redbone o
Andy Russell (football) o
Wynona Ryder o
Rufus Sewell o
Akim Tamiroff o
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Inventions are the things we create from God's inventions.
A laurel crown dries up; the vine from which it came lives on.
We lack veneration for nearly everything. Intelligence, order, compassion and particularly our elders.
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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 the album "The Sea" & "Listen To The Warm," 1967 |
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