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Photo by Edward McKuen 9/24/2005
A Thought for Today
As we move toward
another year may each day of it
bring all the love & friendship your life needs.
FROM the¨BOOKS
A PROMISE
When all the
trees have been dismantled
the decorations of their leaves set by
birch to brown, maple to black
roots pulled up and tumbled in a pile
and when the sun has scurried
up from darkness and back to darkness
for the final time,
with every ocean gone
leaving only traces, a ring around its rim,
then I will love you more than now.
We will have gone beyond impossibles
with no restraining rein
and we will both come back again
to this same place.
I will love you better then and more.
I will have learned from loving
how to love.
- from "Suspension
Bridge," 1984
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Thursday 29 December
Ed Autry o
Tom Bradley o
Pablo Casals o
Ted Danson o
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Peggy Gianville-Hicks o
William Gladstone o
Charles Goodyear o
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Brian "Dexter" Holland o
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Viveca Lindfors o
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Mala Powers o
Inga Swenson o
Jon Voight
Friday
30 December
Suzy Bogguss o
Joseph Bologna o
Paul Bowles o
Skeeter Davis o Bo
Diddley o
Heidi Fleiss o
John Hartford o
John Hillerman o
Davey Jones o
Dmitri Kabalevsky o
Rudyard Kipling o
Sandy Koufax o
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Eliza Little o
Jack Lord o
Mike Nesmith o
Barbara Nichols o
Bert Parks o
Sheryl Lee Ralph o
Del Shannon o
Alfred E. Smith o
Patti Smith o
Noel Paul Stookey o
Russ Tamblyn o
Tracey Ullman o Jo
Van Fleet o
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Close your eyes to dreaming only long enough to dream.
Dreams have taught me to turn my back on nothing that might
end up being something.
The most that we can
do for one another is care.
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ONE SEA IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER |
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I am always being pulled by love
not only bed and bodies
but a city here,
a red sail there.
A beach town
or some seaport city
always opens up her arms
in welcome to me.
I am now
the product of those
many oceans
the sea is all I know
for sure
but I know it well.
If the sea
did not make me
by hand
it rubbed me, rolled me
out of darkness
into light.
For I have seen
my past and future
on the white caps
dancing out beyond
a thousand shorelines.
I have recognized
my face
swimming in the shallows,
my body blundering
through the gray-white foam.
My life has sailed
so far out past the tide
it's now beyond
my own far-reaching reach.
The sea makes something
out of nothing every day,
by the running in
and running back
of the tide alone.
And with the aid
of but a little sand
it polishes and hones
the bottom of the world
twice daily.
One ocean for me
is not like any other
except to say
that each has given comfort
when I need it,
love when there was none
forthcoming
from another quarter,
peace if I stayed long enough
to wait for it or seek it out
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