Wednesday 24th December, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phoenix 2009 shows announced!
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Rod at home by Chuck Hasse 11/1/08. Copyright 2008 by Stanyan Music Group

A Thought for Today

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TO BEGIN WITH

Three nights into Hanukkah and a couple of days before Kwanza begins and what do you have? Must be Christmas Eve. And so we interrupt this Flight to . . . oh, go ahead and play the videos. .

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Wednesday 24 December
CHRISTMAS EVE

Noelle Adams o Jill Bennett o Kit Carson o Ruth Chatterton o Mary Higgins Clark o Mike Curb o Ava Gardner o Johnnie Gruelle o Carol Haney o Howard Hughes o Robert Joffrey o Ricky Martin o Jonas Mekas o I.F. Stone o Mark Valley o Harry Warren o Franz Waxman

Rod's random thoughts Don’t forget whose birthday we celebrate tomorrow.

The older we get the more luxuries and essentials converge.

The sounds that break the silence are the ones we never hear.

CHRISTMAS YET TO COME

Tomorrow comes
and Christmas next year too
and hour upon hour
as afternoons chase evenings
the days line into decades.

Hark the holidays
and keep them holy,
save them all as markers.

One Christmas-
not yet here perhaps,
but on the way
we’ll be here again.
The world and we.
I’ll come back to building bridges.
You’ll begin rebuilding me.

- from “The Carols of Christmas,” 1971

 
     
 
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