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Christmas, 1976

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A Thought for Today

Keeping an open mind doesn't require brain surgery.

 

The year
now winding down
I pull my winter coat
a little tighter
and walk out through the snow.

Everywhere the world is waiting
for Father Christmas to come 
sliding down the chimney

I do not think he'll disappoint us
this time out.
I think he knows 
we've earned our toys,
our tinsel and our time
to be together peacefully
this year more than ever.

Happy Birthday
to the Christ Child
          and the country.

And to you,
be happy and be kind.
Keep Christmas in your heart.
Be patient. The snow will melt
as our love for all things good
                will go on growing.

     -from The Rod McKuen / Animal Concern 1976 Calendar & Datebook
notable birthdays Morey Amsterdam o Frances ("Aunt Bee") Bavier o Jane Birkin o Marilyn Cooper o Dan Dailey o Patty Duke o George Furth o Don Hewitt o Shirley Jackson o Spike Jones o Abbe Lane o Nostradamus o Michael Owen o Lee Remick o Charlie Rich o Geraldine Robinson o Margaret Chase Smith o Carol Widel
Rod's random thoughts Equality means not only equal rights but equal responsibility to one's neighbor and one's self.
A string needs tying up as every empty space, merely to prove its existence, needs walking through.
Democracy only works when practiced.

THREE SHORT POEMS FROM
THE CAROLS OF CHRISTMAS

 David's Poem

David's at the window
and snowflakes
sound like drums.

Song

Good God give us more
than just our daily bread.
Let our foraging be done
in your name only.

Make the songs we sing
songs of praise
and not of glory.

God of our fathers
be the one our songs turn to
as we pass into history.

Lessons

In imitating Christ
we mustn't once forget
He seldom went alone.
His friends were those
who needed friends themselves.

A teacher, he was often taught
and not by just His father
but by the flock He shepherded
from torment into love.

He was the wisest of His wise men.
That didn't come by chance,
it came from caring.

                       - from "The Carols of Christmas", 1971
© 1971, 1975, 1976 & 2000 by Stanyan Music Group & Rod McKuen. All Rights Reserved
Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith
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