1st
& 2nd September, 2007
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Rod at
Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod
McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006,
2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved.
A Thought for Today
September is the turning point, the time that takes us home.
FROM the¨BOOKS
ENDLESS SUMMERS
Too much sun
within the endless summers
has made my mind forget
whose pleasure prisoner I was
when the knot was tied.
Who I pretended to
or who pretended to me
that we were living out
the lovers' dream.
Who I said words for before
should not be paramount
or prime
only that I wrote them once.
Got them out
and out from under me,
delivered them in time
to start the chain,
broken often,
but always mended.
The most important thing I am
is a guardian of dreams,
the least important
thing I am
is me.
Hurry someone.
Another week and I'll be ready.
-from the U. S. Edition of "The Sea Around Me," 1976, 1977
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Saturday 1 September
Box Car Willie o
Edgar Rice Burroughs o
Yvonne De Carlo o
Alan Dershowitz o
Gloria Estefan o
Vittorio Gassman o
Barry Gibb o
Engelbert Humperdinck o
George Maharis o
Rocky Marciano o
Dr. Phil McGraw o
Marilyn Miller o
Seiji Ozawa o
Walter Reuther o
Leonard Slatkin o
Lily Tomlin o
Conway Twitty o
Don Wilson
Sunday
2 September
Laurindo Almeida o
Cleveland Amory o
Romare Beardon o
Terry Bradshaw o
Marge Champion o
Jimmy Clanton o
Jimmy Connors o
Allen Drury o
Mark Harmon o
Salma Hayek o
Erin Hershey o
Joan Kennedy o
Lennox Lewis o
Christa McAuliffe o
Martha Mitchell o
Linda Purl o
Keanu Reeves o
Alan K. Simpson o
Peter Ueberroth o
Vera Vague o
Giovanni Verga |
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Kindness is in short supply so any show of it is mighty.
September is the edge of hope and sometimes it's the center. Travel through it carefully but with ease.
Never come up to an existing standard, always move ahead.
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POINT OF REFERENCE |
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Time is nothing without clocks.
Break the wristwatch
and the aging still continues
but time grows muddled
and confused.
Pull the blind on sunshine
and the dark will keep us
in the middle of the night.
Without a calendar
we have only the cold to show us
when the first full winter day
arrives.
The engine coughs, wheezes, stops,
the heart within the body
shrinks or slows
then finally halts,
the traffic light still works
or fails on unseen meters
based on timing and on time.
Time is nothing
without clocks.
-from "We Touch the Sky," 1979, 1980 |
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