Rod McKuen - Flight Plan


17th & 18th July, 2006		Photo by Edward Habib McKuen. ©2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives A Thought for Today Without regrets there are no aspirations. FROM the¨BOOKS JULY 16 Years from now we may not need to touch so often or roll together in the sand or eat each other with our eyes. It could be time will make it easy to go together side by side with not a single bedroom thought. But now the elevator man nodding at you as we step inside his four-by-four castle makes me worry more than generals worry when they lose a war. - from "In Someone’s Shadow", 1968 Click on the Stanyan House logo to buy Rod McKuen books, CD's and lots more Click on the heart logo to subscribe to the Rod McKuen mailing list Catch Rod McKuen live! Click on the links below for details of concerts and appearances. ROD McKUEN CONCERTS ROD McKUEN APPEARANCES



		Monday 17 July S.Y. Agnon o Hardy Amies o Lucie Arnaz o John Jacob Astor o James Cagney o Diahann Carroll o Spencer Davis o Phyllis Diller o Erle Stanley Gardner o William Gargan o Gale Garnett o David Hasselhoff o Mimi Hines o Art Linkletter o Phoebe Snow o Christina Stead o Eleanor Steber o Donald Sutherland Tuesday 18 July James Brolin o Dick Button o Hume Cronyn o Dion o John Glenn o Screamin’ J. Hawkins o S.I. Hayakawa o George “Machine Gun” Kelly o Gene Lockhart o Nelson Mandela o Kurt Masur o Elizabeth McGovern o Marvin Miller o Harriet Nelson o Clifford Odets o Martha Reeves o Red Skelton o William Makepeace Thackeray o Hunter S. Thompson o Joe Torre o Lupe Velez o Paul Verhoeven o Jessamyn West o Chill Wills o Yevgeny Yevtushenko

		Scratch a legend and you'll find a crack. Without an audience of one or more, what constitutes the validation of a thought or work? Compassion is the ability to see other people's needs in the same perspective as our own.

COMING CLOSE		I wanted so to bend the bough but never once to break the branch. I hoped that I might see the blossoms fall intact without the petals coming loose or even once detached. What I wanted most was love in a straight straightforward way. I wanted you not as you could be had I made you up but the way I found you no different from the way you really are. I thought by now we might have earned a chance to come down close and lie against the earth. But I'm convinced the earth will not allow even it's truest lover membership straight away. I cannot care a little for you. I love you only just enough to love you all the way. -from "Coming Close To The Earth,"1977, 1978 (Note: This is a combination of both versions.)

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