Rod McKuen - Flight Plan


FLIGHT PLAN		Order your copy from Stanyan By Mail A Thought for Today Duty is the stuff of man's existence. Rod and Ken are both out of action following a computer virus attack. We'll be back as soon as we can.



		Max Baer, Jr. o Tyra Banks o Pappy Boyington o Jeff Bridges o Horst Bucholz o Samuel Butler o Freddy Cannon o Thomas Carlyle o Ronnie Corbett o Dena Dietrich o Deanna Durbin o Vasily Kandinsky o Wink Martindale o Alex North o Lillian Russell o Marisa Tomei o Dennis Wilson

		If creativity wasn't such a solitary thing, we'd have more Galileo's. It's a pity that brains take second place to will. The smart tree bends with the wind.

IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE		Bless the children first, for they need help just to get them safely down the block. With all the mazes that we make for them (like teaching them to hate before they learn to spell) It is a wonder that they ever find the door that opens out to adolescence. Bless the animals hat sniff the kitchen floor and those that prowl the hills Animals, like angels, need protection, because we use them only as a substitute for love - the kind that other people promise us while they steal our evenings and before they sneak away. - from "An Outstretched Hand," 1980

Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith

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