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Rod is still feeling under the
weather with 'flu so he's taking it easy and trying to gather his strength for the
Christmas Season ahead. We'll continue
looking at Flight Plans from the past - here's the one from June 29. Birthday's are again
current.
-Ken, Johannesburg, December 10
To begin with every page is blank, until a smudge, a
paragraph is set down upon it. Some pages still stay blank after the most intricate,
indelible story has been started.
The starting of a new story is always easy; it's the ending that comes hard. Knowing when
to draw conclusions, the point to let your characters stop leading you so that you can
take command. When is the sum enough to provide the summing up?
I do not know how death will come to me, though once I thought I did. How I will greet it
depends on how hard or easy it comes in. I am very sure that any pain that might accompany
my going could not be as bad or worse than some I've known within my life. I am resolved
that, if I can, I will view the end as the writer does the blank page just in front of
him. A beginning.
- from Alone, 1975
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