Photograph by Bob Gentry 8/5/99
A Thought for Today
Will and purpose will move you through the darkest times.
The regular daily Flight Plan will be
suspended for a few weeks while I'm away helping Webmaster Ken Blackie work out the design
and content of our upcoming STANYAN HOUSE web site. I hope you'll continue landing here
ever day though because Jay Hagan and Melinda Smith have chosen two poems from a different
one of my books for every day that I'm gone.
So, something new will be here every morning. The Thought for Today and the Notable
Birthdays will continue. See you soon.
Love, Rod
Two lyrics from "Frank Sinatra: A Man
Alone," by Rod McKuen.
A Man Alone
In me you see A Man Alone
held by the habit
of being on his own
a man who listens
to the trembling of the trees
with sentimental ease.
In me you see A Man Alone
behind the wall
he's learned to call his home
a man who still
goes walking in the rain
expecting love again.
A man, not lonely
except when the dark comes on
a man learning to live with
memories of midnight's
that fall apart at dawn.
In me you see A Man Alone
drinking up Sunday's
and spending them alone
a man who knows
love is seldom what it seems
only other people's dreams.
- Chosen by MS |
