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Rod & Sunny: Photo by Bob Gentry 8/5/1999

A Thought for Today

Strength is the ability to weather insults and take criticism for what it is. Somebody else's opinion.

 

THURSDAY ·THOUGHTS

I can’t remember the last time I had as much sheer fun as I experienced this past weekend. To be part of the cast of ”Something Wonderful” on Saturday and Sunday and to have so many friends and fans on hand for my own afternoon concert on a beautiful California Sunday afternoon was more than fun, it was sheer euphoria.

And it was no small pleasure to have my audience meet the talented singer-songwriter Bob Gentry who appeared as my special guest.

Here are a couple of photographs of the two of us taken last Sunday afternoon during the show.

Digital Photography by Val Riolo © 2002 All Rights Reserved

In fact Bob and I had such a good time performing together that he’ll be joining me again during next Saturday nights concert in Glen Ellyn . . . . and that’s why I’m taking the rest of the day off, to rehearse yet another song with him.

See you on Saturday night.

RM 11/13/2002 11:20 PM PST

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ROD McKUEN CONCERTS
notable birthdays St. Augustine o Travis Barker o Stephen Bishop o Charles, Prince of Wales o Aaron Copland o Rosemary De Camp o Chris Demetral o Johnny Desmond o Mamie Eisenhower o Robert Fulton o Nina Gordon (Smashing Pumpkins) o King Hussein of Jordan o Barbara Hutton o George S. Kaufmani o Brian Keith o Veronica Lake o Marya Mannes o Senator Joseph McCarthy o Claude Monet o Jawaharlal Nehru o Jim Piersall o Dick Powell o Leonie Rysanek o Harrison Salisbury o McLean Stevenson o D.B. Sweeney o Martha Tilton
Rod's random thoughts The appearance of reality is not quite as good as reality itself.

Two things never to be sorry about: That which we cannot help and that which we can.

If you kill a friendship by thought or deed resolve not to die with your weapon in your hand.

UNSEEN

 What goes on unseen
untold to us
    by one the other
is more real
than all the sentences
our senses spoke
                    and speak.

I see your face and know
a tilting of your shoulder
speaks whole paragraphs aloud,
whole stories filled with proof
that what is happening
is if anything a wilful lie
both of us indulge in.

This much is fact.
You do not amaze me
with your dark indifference.
You never once astound me
by being only what
I wish you to be.

I await the crumbs
                      just now
delighted that they come
from bread lifted out of ovens
by some hidden master baker.

Yes
the whole thing
would be beautiful.
All pretense
not pretended anymore.

But you are here sometimes
that is enough for you
and by necessity
must be enough for me.

Keep sleeping
stay silent hours more.
                               You’re here
these kind of moments are enough.

- from Folio No.1, Spring 1974
 
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