Rod McKuen - Flight Plan


TUESDAY 36 DAYS TO GO! CARNEGIE HALL BOOKINGS OPEN! Click on the Stanyan House logo for details.		Rod at B.B. King's - May, 2002. Photo by Jay Hagan A Thought for Today Peace is a beautiful word . . . especially in the practice. SOME THOUGHTS ON AUTUMN If you're alone in autumn, you'll be alone all winter long. And so security becomes not just the scepter or the wand but the banner we hold high for confidence while we go looking for safety that is real, not security. For me autumn is never a time of decay or age, but one of optimism, knowing something, someone. Waits. I am at one with nature in the fall, and love and loyalty areas important to me with new friends as they are with those collected down a lifetime. -from "A Book of Days And A Month of Sunday's," 1981 Click on the heart logo to buy Rod McKuen books, CD's and lots more Click on the Stanyan House logo to subscribe to the McKuen Mailing List Catch Rod McKuen live! Click on the links below for details of concerts and appearances. ROD McKUEN CONCERTS ROD McKUEN APPEARANCES



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		Temper ought to be tempered by compassion. The quality of life improves with interdependence. Love a little, live a lot.

THE SATURDAY NIGHT PEOPLE		Tired... I went out anyway. The Saturday Night People were everywhere. Dueling in the streets with their automobiles. Lining at the porno theaters hoping for a little simulated action. I was hoping for... well... maybe I'd given up hope for right then anyway. I came into Griff's with all guards down not even hiding behind myself anymore. And you came out of hiding for me. By the evening's end I thought if we stood any longer staring each other I'd fall down or go blind. And so it was that we went home together as each of us had done apart so many hundred times before. For me... the morning still hasn't come the night stays on. As wide as your silver bracelet, as full as you first filled me. As dark and difficult to get through as that pool of love was. And so... we're the Saturday Night People too. But we're only two as opposed to all the crowds that have crowded up our lifetimes. - From the album "Summer, 1979"

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