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Rod 4/16/04 Photo by Billy Iz
A Thought for Today
Love doesn't call for caution, as life
does not depend on one man's way of living it.
FROM the¨BOOKS
SPRING SONG
Long before the trees begin to
bud, before the new grass starts to roll with the curvature of the hill
and spread out evenly on the common, a certain uneasiness, a kind of
insecurity arrives one morning or maybe just at dusk. It presents itself,
moves in and settles in. Not unkind, not troublesome, this uncertainly is
more an itch - a harbinger that finally scratched enough boils into the
apple blossom.
The thrower of the seeds lets go his kernels in mid-March. The early April
rain cooperates. Later on the lilac trees are all so heavy that their
boughs bend low and nearly break. The prairie dog sits up and calls from
mound to mound... a high pitched squeak that all his brothers answer. New
pinafores for Sunday School. New patent leather shoes for Easter.
The May pole dance. Lost balloons begin to decorate the inside branches of
trees. The song of the Wandering Angus is lived out and sung. The plainest
of us begin to feel beautiful again... and the fever deepens.
- from Rod McKuen's "Book of
Days", 1981
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Saturday 12 June
Marv Albert o
Irwin Allen o
George Bush o
Chick Corea o
Vic Damone o
Sir Anthony Eden o
Anne Frank o
Leon Goossens o
Uta Hagen o
Charles Kingsley o
Oliver Knussen o
Priscilla Lane o
William Lundigan o
Jim Nabors o
Ian Partridge o
David Rockefeller o
Ally Sheedy o
Richard Sherman o
Ivan Tors
Sunday 13 June
Tim Allen o
Don Budge o
Fanny Burney o
Christo o
Ralph Edwards o
Bobby Freeman o
Red Grange o
Paul Lynde o
Malcom McDowell o
Ashley & Mary-Kate Olsen o
Basil Rathbone o
Dorothy L. Sayers o
Ally Sheedy o
Richard Thomas o
Mark van Doren o
Jamie Walters o
Mary Wickes o
William Butler Yeats o
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June is for juggling, for getting rid of spring and moving into
summertime. The beach is but a backrest waiting to fold down into
August.
Something tugs at me, I've no doubt of that.
Something from the sea, whichever one I'm near. When I stray too far
from beachland, it calls me back.
To love, it is more important to learn the
needs of others than to dwell upon our own.
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Some days up ahead
will come down empty
and some years fuller
than the fullest one
we've known before.
Today has been
the best day yet.
I
thought
you ought to know that,
and I thought it time
that I said thank you
for whatever might have
passed between us
that in your mind
you might have felt
missed my attention.
It didn't
and it doesn't
and it won't.
Thank you
for the everydays
that you make
into holidays.
I close up
more often now,
not just to you
but even to myself
within
myself.
I know I should
be always open.
At least I ought to make
a
better try.
I will.
-from the 1974 U.S. edition of “Moment to Moment” |
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