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      MONDAY SMILE

A Thought for Today

I forgive my friends everything twice; then I begin to worry.

 

Good Morning. Is it Friday yet? Guess not!

Rod has got caught somewhere between the Moon and New York City so we'll kick the week off with a smile.

Now I've no way of knowing if the following is true but we have a saying here ..... "only in Africa!". I've removed the name of the country just in case their lawyers are avid readers of ASPTL.

Extracted from a note from the XXXXXX GTA (Government Telecommunication Agency)

YtoK project Manager to the GTA IT Directory:

I hope I haven't misunderstood your instructions because to be honest, none of this Y to K problem makes any sense to me.

At any rate, I have finished converting all the "Y's" to "K's" for the months on all the company calendars so that the Year 2000 is ready to go with the following new months:

Januark
Februark
Julk

I'm sure you will be pleased that the project has been completed well in advance of the target completion date. Yes, in XXXXX, we are now 100% YtoK compliant.

Joseph Kazimba
Project Manager
YtoK Branch Team

Rod will be back with you tomorrow.

                                - Ken, Johannesburg, October 11

notable birthdays

Columbus Day Observed

Joseph Alsop o Art Blakey o Zev Buffman o Joan Cusak o Martha Graham o Daryl Hall o Rob Leibman o Franz Liszt o Ennio Morricone o Luke Perry o Charles Revson o Jerome Robbins o Eleanor Roosevelt o Dottie West

Rod's random thoughts Don't compete. You're lesser than no man and none are better. All creatures, beings, people are alike. How can you compete, win or lose a race, with someone other than yourself? Being you is hard enough, but someone other? Never.

There will be times when many will want pieces of you, but only offer up the whole.

Perspective comes when poles are far enough apart to have horizons at both ends.

EIGHTEEN

The moonrise
and the sunfall
are visible
to any blind man
with eyes enough
to feel the outline
of another blind man's breath.

                                - from "Caught in the Quiet", 1970

© 1970, 1986, 1999 by Stanyan Music Group & Rod McKuen. All Rights Reserved
Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan
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