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       SAGITTARIUS
NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 21

Do you bridle when people say you have a horse face? Every time you open your mouth do you put your hoof in it? Do you waste time trying to swat flies off your neck with your tail? You’re a Sagittarius all right! And, your best friends are probably twins named Jim and Gemini. Tell them to expect a large check or a gallon of milk from a stranger. Don’t ask. If you have a Taurus buddy don’t be surprised if people look at the two of you very strangely. Stellar influences now, determine the caliber of your gains.

This is St. Clement's Day. On this day in 1585 the British  organist and composer died and ninety-nine years ago the first jukebox was installed in San Francisco. Today in 1903 Italian Opera star Enrico Caruso made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Two days later he cut his first soon to be charted single and it was on its way by FedEx to San Francisco.

In 1945 the U.S. government ended all rationing, except for sugar. Have a sweet Monday all you centaurs and their significant others.  

                                                 - RM 11/22/98

notable birthdays Abigail Adams o Billy the Kid o Guy Bolton o Maxwell Caufield o Ruth Etting o Manuel de Falla o Bruce Hornsby o Victor Jory o Boris Karloff o Steve Landesberg o Johnny Mandel o Harpo Marx o Krzysztof Penderecki o Franklin Pierce
Rod's random thoughts Studying the anatomy is not enough. Doctors should be forced to learn the human heart.

Conscience is the only perfect climate.

Understanding yourself is freedom absolute.

Until all men and women become brothers and sisters, the gates of heaven will continue to need periodic oiling and protection against rust.

TWO POEMS FROM
"MOMENT TO MOMENT"

In Case You Didn’t Know

Some days up ahead
will come down empty
and some years fuller
than the fullest one
we’ve known before.

Today has been
the best day yet.
             I thought
you ought to know that,
and I thought it time
that I said thank you
for whatever might have
passed between us
that in your mind
you might have felt
missed my attention.

It didn’t
and it doesn’t
and it won’t.

Thank you
for the everydays
that you make
into holidays.

I close up
more often now,
not just to you
but even to myself
                 within myself.

I know I should
be always open.
At least I ought to make
              a better try.

I will.

Had I the Courage of One

Some distance there is
between my back
and this new morning.

Had I the courage of one
I’d turn you around.
Had I the courage of five
I’d turn you around inside you
pulling all the dark earth
                           with me.

Had I the courage of ten
we’d start so much together
that we’d never have the time
to finish even one thing started.

Had I the courage of one hundred
I’d stand back and look at you.
                           That’s all.

Moving away, moving away,
gone you are while yet arriving.
Had I the courage of one
I’d run beside you or behind you.

Instead I run away.
So it is we’ve started out
on this new day together
to travel parallel paths
in opposite directions.

                                - from "Moment To Moment 1973, 1974, 1975

© 1973, 1974, 1975 1986, 1998 by Stanyan Music Group & Rod McKuen. All Rights Reserved
Birthday research by Wade Alexander
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