31st December, 2005
&
1st January, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

San Sebastian Strings albums now available on CD! Order now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo by Jerry Lonn, Holland, December, 2005.
©2005 by Stanyan Music Group. All Rights Reserved.

A Thought for Today

A toast to everything that touched us all year long - friends newly met and old friends here and gone but still remembered.

 

OUT WITH THE OLD
 &
IN WITH THE NEW -

HAPPY NEW YEAR
 FROM THE GANG
AT
A SAFE PLACE TO LAND
&
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Saturday 31 December
New Years Eve

Rex Allen o Elizabeth Arden o Paula Barbier o Barbara Carrera o Jacques Cartier o Rosalind Cash o Lord Cornwallis o Burton Cummings o Joe Dallesandro o John Denver o Anthony Hopkins o Jonah Jones o Val Kilmer o Ben Kingsley o Tim Matheson o Henri Matisse o Joe McIntyre o Sarah Miles o Pola Negri o Bebe Neuwirth o Odetta o Nino Rota o George Schlatter o Patti Smith o Goran Sollscher o Jule Styne o Donna Summer

Sunday 1 January
New Year's Day

Dana Andrews o Charles Bickford o Xavier Cugat o E.M. Forster o Frances the Talking Mule o Barry Goldwater o Rocky Graziano o Hank Greenberg o J. Edgar Hoover o Kala Sosefina Mileniume Kauvaka o Carole Landis o Frank Langella o Country Joe McDonald o Don Novello o Joe Orton o Paul Revere o Betsy Ross o J.D. Salinger o Joey Stefano
Rod's random thoughts A Toast: May your hand be full for always, if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again.

And now a toast: I wish you heady harvests every day of every year, no unsure hours or sleepless nights, and happiness enough to make the valley’s of New England and the verdant hills of France forever green inside your heart.

The inner ear hears music and that’s enough.

A TOAST

 Amid the toasts
and glasses raised
on holidays and special nights
let none of us forget
            each other
that in the scheme of things
with mirrors for reflections
or with nothing
but our knowledge of ourselves
we as a people everywhere
are for the most part
        good and kind.

A glass then if you please
held higher than the rest
to ourselves and what we each
inside our secret head aspire to be.

 - from "Too Many Midnights," 1981
 
     
 
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