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Photograph by Donna Marie Bergeniao 11/11/2003

A Thought for Today

Reason may not always win the argument but it keeps the mind awake.

 

FLIGHTS FROM6THE PAST
20 December 2001

‘Tis The Season

It must be that time of year since every other TV commercial is recycled just like the perennial Christmas Carols. I submit ‘Elizabeth Taylor’s White Diamonds,’ ‘The Salad Shooter,’ various electric razors, The Clapper & Chiopet.

With the exception of white diamonds (the real, not smelly ones) if you receive any of the above in your stocking consider it a lump of coal. While we’re at it, no household appliances for Mom, please – she manages without them all year long & if she wants a Salad Shooter she’ll pick it up on her own at an after Christmas sale.

Skip the ties for Dad and if you plan on getting him a sweater add a couple of extra bucks and make it cashmere. As for Junior and Junior Miss, forget the apparel (bad enough that we buy them all the wrong and embarrassing clothes in September for ‘back to school’) and concentrate on something pretty or cunning and impractical. By mid-January it’ll be broken or cashed in anyway.

Join me tomorrow for a smile or two as I pass along some of recently arrived ‘stuff’ that has no place to go but to you. Sleep warm.

RM 12/19/2001

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notable birthdays

Monday December 1

Woody Allen o Carol Alt o Julie Condra o John Densmore o Bob Goen o Matthew Laborteaux o Mary Martin o Keith Michell o Bette Midler o Matt Monro o Jeremy Northam o Jaco Pastorius o Billy Paul o Richard Pryor o Lou Rawls o Cyril Ritchard o Dick Shawn o Rex Stout o Charlene Tilton o Lee Trevino o Alexander Ryan Ward o Treat Williams

Tuesday December 2

Tracy Austin o Dan Butler o Maria Callas o Dennis Christopher o Cathy Lee Crosby o Milton DeLugg o Ric Felix o Nellie Furtado o Hy Gardner o Adolph Green o Alexander Haig o Julie Harris o David W. Hearst o Randolph Hearst o Frank Israel o Lucy Liu o Michael McDonald o Stone Phillips o Charles Ringling o Monica Seles o George Seurat o Britney Spears o Rena Sofer o Gianni Versace

Rod's random thoughts There are no wise men, only men who go on gaining wisdom by staying alert and being open.

The supply of love will never exceed the demand, but it should.

Prayer is a handshake with hope.

SANTA TO SANTA
The 1981 Christmas Card

To each woman
and each man
who live and run
on God’s green ground
all birds that float
within His perfect sky
and every creature
scrambling, standing, loping,
                            turning
on or deep within His earth –
and out upon his many seas,
a wish for their protection
     for still another year.

And each to each
within their circle
and their species I wish thought
love enough to see them through
their deepest darkest nights.

Printed privately, 1981. First publication in Flight Plan 12/16/1999

 
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