5th & 6th December, 2005
Rod in Concert
Holland, December 2005!
San Sebastian Strings
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Photo by Edward McKuen 9/24/2005
A Thought for Today
God grant us kind contrition for our sins and our omissions
and most of all our contradictions.
FROM the¨BOOKS
THE COMING OF THE RAIN
It seems as though
the rain has not begun
and yet that it will never stop.
So much love has passed between us
that we’ve made the afternoon
last through half the night
by moving back and forth
across each other
again and time again.
I’d love to fill you to the brim
so that you’d be always full
and spilling over,
then I could know for sure
no interloper however tall
weaving through the distance
would find shelter in you
from the next November rain
or hide your body
from the long
September shadows
with his own.
And still it rains
as though the sky’s let go
for always.
A thoughtful rain
as I go back to bed
and you go off
to make a chocolate cake.
the rain that I had damned
all morning,
I bless tonight.
Don’t wake me if I fall asleep
even if your fist
is full of frosting.
- from "And To Each Season" 1972
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Monday
5 December
Morgan Brittany o
Margaret Cho o
General George Custer o
Joan Didion o
Walt Disney o
Morgan J. Freeman o
Maggie Hayes o
Larry Kert o
Fritz Lang o
Jim Messina o
Grace Moore o
Frankie Muniz o
Jim Plunkett o
Otto Preminger o
Little Richard o
John Rzeznik o
George Savalas o
Strom Thurmond o
Calvin Trillin o
Jack Valenti o
Martin Van Buren
Tuesday
6 December
Debbie Armstrong o
Chelsea Brown o
Dave Brubeck o
Peter Buck o
Andrew Cuomo o
Wally Cox o
Alfred Eisenstaedt o
Lynn Fontaine o
Ira Gershwin o
Nikolaus Harmoncourt o
William S. Hart o
Tom Hulce o
Joyce Kilmer o
Don King o
Jonathan King o
Pieter Lloyd o
Joyce Mathews o
Agnes Moorehead o
James Naughton o
David Ossman o
Wil Shriner o
Ryan White o
JoBeth Williams o
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Smiles spread liberally breed satisfaction.
Accuse me of loving too much, never too little.
Inside the midnight we all know I suspect another lurks more
beautiful and with a closer moon.
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Finally the wind has finished
piling up November leaves.
Now it turns
to drive the snow in drifts
along
the
fences
of December farms.
The cattle come slow
or not at all.
They scratch their backs
against the barnyard doors.
Their dialogue,
even as they chew their endless cud,
is low and mournful.
The lazy longhorns,
down the pasture
venture outside only
for a cooling taste of snow.
The wise among them
stay inside the shed
switching tails at what few flies
now survive the early winter.
Lie back.
The wind is on the move.
Till the bare tree limbs
stand still again
we’ve no need to move at all.
Turn not away from me.
But if you turn toward me,
do it in a lazy way
and slow.
Let me sleep a minute more.
When the coffee starts to perking,
come to me with smiles.
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