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A Thought for Today
You will grow more if
you attempt to travel with giants.
Thanks to the clearing out of old office furniture by my wife's employers
I recently became the proud owner of a new (to me) desk and filing
cabinet. Having worked on an old metal trestle table for the last five
years the luxury of having a workspace with drawers is beyond description.
Of course the arrival of the filing cabinet (a lovely piece of oak
furniture) necessitated an office spring clean and the sorting out of a
ton of old papers and "stuff" and it was during this process I came across
my correspondence with Rod concerning the launch of this web site back in
1998.
The story goes something like this:
After being pointed in the right direction by tara Schofield and Ken Ball,
I'd made my pitch to Rod and received a long letter in reply giving
beaucoup reasons why the creation of an official McKuen web site was not a
good idea. I'd responded to his misgivings as best I could and was now
waiting for yet another reply.
Rod, by his own admission, sometimes takes awhile to respond to letters.
He and I are a lot alike in this respect - when we don't know what to do, we do nothing. I kept prodding him with what I hoped were well
reasoned faxes (this, would you believe, was how we communicated back
then) and eventually back came a fax in his own handwriting saying "Ken,
let's try and do it". So we did it.
As you can imagine waiting for the go-ahead was a trying time for me and
driving to work each morning I kept asking myself "when am I going to hear
from Rod?". The answer that always came to mind was "one day soon". Hey,
wasn't that a song? Sure it was. Wasn't that a McKuen song? Of
course it was.
And so it was that "One Day Soon" became my driving/waiting for Rod song
and the lyrics are posted below for your enjoyment. If you ever find
yourself waiting for something to happen, give this song a listen while
driving and you may be surprised at the results.
It certainly worked for me.
- Ken, Johannesburg,
December 11
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