19th & 20th November, 2005
Rod in Concert
Holland, December 2005!
San Sebastian Strings
albums now available on CD! Order
now!
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Photo by Edward McKuen 9/24/2005
A Thought for Today
Always have a fallback position in case
'Plan A' fails.
TO BEGIN WITH
Unseasonably hot weather here in Southern California and so the
brushfire season begins. KubbyKat Too is still in the hospital but we
have our fingers crossed that he might be well enough to come home
tomorrow.
FROM the¨BOOKS
THREE POEMS from IN SOMEONE’S SHADOW
October 7 / When We Have Learned
When we’ve finally learned to love
Who will teach us to hate again?
And what will we begin
to break down first,
our bodies or our friends?
Like cats that claw
amid the chaos of new garbage
will we become adept at hate,
good enough to call ourselves professionals?
Or will we go like gypsy vagabonds
seeking out new targets every night?
October 14 / Charles Ives Winter
It will be Charles Ives winter.
You can tell that even now
by the way the branches tremble after dark
and the wind rakes up the leaves,
saving the rain the trouble.
I have yet to become an expert on myself
though I thought I was a time or two.
But I am willing to drop my mirror for a while
and hold yours up to you.
I have the winter just beyond the hill
to help me.
It will be a Charles Ives winter,
full of holidays for someone.
-from In Someone’s Shadow, 1969
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Saturday 19 November
Roy Campanella o
Dick Cavett o
Tommy Dorsey o
Jodie Foster o
Indira Gandhi o
James A. Garfield o
Savion Glover o
Dan Haggerty o
Dorothy Jetter o
Larry King o
Jeane Kirkpatrick o
Calvin Klein o
McCaughey Septuplets o
Jose Molina o
Bob Richardson o
Meg Ryan o
Keri Strug o
Ted Turner o
Clifton Webb o
Alan Young
Sunday
20 November
Mexican Revolution (Mexico)
Duane Altman o
Kaye Ballard o
Judy Canova o
June Christy o
Alistair Cooke o
Richard Dawson o Bo
Derek o
Chester Gould o
Richard Kegler o
Robert Kennedy o
Rene Kollo o
Leadbelly (Hudie Ledbetter) o
Richard Masur o
Estelle Parsons o
Maya Plisetskaya o
Emilio Pucci o
Dick Smothers o
Gene Tierney o
Judy Woodruff o
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The
universe can change or perish, but the soul lives on.
If I love my fellow man a little more today,
tomorrow I’ll move more gently through his space.
Without the cold for reference, we wouldn’t
recognize the comfort of warmth.
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The young can
save the world I think
by growing older in a hurry.
We need a whole new age of older men
in brand-new vests.
If we’re to know again the dignity of tall men,
then all those who are running in the streets
With rocks and bricks
had better learn to use their stones
to build foundations, not to slice off roofs.
You build by pulling down the rubble.
But first you have to have a plan.
-from In Someone’s Shadow, 1969with
revisions November, 2005 |
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