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

A Thought for Today

Love life. Be glad you're part of it.

 

Hope you have a super Saturday full of surprising Stuff. Don't forget to watch the Olympics from Australia. They have three different NBC stations that have helped to pay for the broadcasting rights in the USA. Let's hope they don't stiff us the rest of the week, like they did last night for the opening ceremonies. Luv, Rod
notable birthdays Jean Arp o Lauren Bacall o Elgin Baylor o Ed Begley, Jr. o Gwen Bristow o Charlie Byrd o Rosemary Casals o Matt Chanoff o George Ciakiris o David Copperfield o Peter Falk o Anne Francis o Allen Funt o Piero Gamba o Linda Kaye Henning o Kenny Jones o John Albert Karle o Jack Kelly o B. B. King o John Knowles o Janis Paige o J. C. Penny o Harrison Francis Parkman o Mickey Rourke o Reverend Robert Schuller o Ben Shields o Jennifer Tilly
Rod's random thoughts Comparison is no measure of value.
A cat's interest in something disagreeable to him comes and goes as quickly as the blinking eye of eagles.
No stars, no sages and no sayings change us. We are altered by the alternatives we stumble on.

EMPTY HARBOUR

 Those of us who sleep alone
are like abandoned boats-
we become accustomed
to lack of ownership
We believe our chosen paths
are only where the sea drift takes us.

I have come back
to where the cedar hills
wear darkness like a stocking cap,
where morning comes the way
            the fish hawk comes
quickly and on silent wings-
not because I had to or so wished
but because I found myself
moving in this sure direction.

I am still here looking for you.
There are no days
when I do not seek you out,
no hours anymore when you are not 
                   paramount
when I am not sure beyond imagining
that I will meet you in the hills
          or on the street.
I never do.
But I still go and come
to places we shared first together.
I always travel alleyways we knew;
these journeys need no compass
         and no chart.
They have been tracked before
and I will go on tracking them
alone if need be.

                   - from "The Sound of Solitude", 1983
© 1983, 1988, 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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