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Rod on Maui, August 2003. Photo by John Scoggins.
©2003 by Stanyan Entertainment.

A Thought for Today

It doesn't have to be a happy life, but it ought to be a full one.

 

THE WEEKEND WATCH

LOVE WORKS

If there is a so-called lot (all there is) to loving, I'm convinced that several lifetimes would not, could not, exhaust the lover. If certain experiences I write about seem born of pain, they surely were, but the compensation - not always evident at the time - overrides the sorrow and self-pity. My banner with its strange device may be merely made of hope heaped on hope in the name of self-preservation. I don't think so. I enter into each relationship with trust and I am not easily convinced that something I want badly enough or believe in will not work. Love works if you work at it.

                                - from "Love's Been Good To Me", 1979

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notable birthdays

SATURDAY 25th OCTOBER

Jon Anderson o Billy Barty o John Berryman o Georges Bizet o Michael Boatman o Rosalyn Butt o Richard Byrd o Leo G. Carroll o James Carville o Henry Steele Commager o Barbara Cook o Anthony Franciosa o Bobby Knight o Sara Lumholdt o Tracy Nelson o Minnie Pearl o Pablo Picasso o Helen Reddy o Marion Ross o Russell Schweikart o Johann Strauss o Ransom Wilson

SUNDAY 26th OCTOBER
Daylight Savings Time Ends
First of Ramadan

Charlie Barnet o Primo Carnera o Hillary Rodham Clinton o Jackie Coogan o Cary Elwes o Chuck Foreman (football) o Diane Hoffman o Bob Hoskins o Mahalia Jackson o T.C. Jones o Margaret Leighton o Dylan McDermott o Pat Sajak o Domenico Scarlatti o Shah of Iran o Jaclyn Smith o Lauren Tewes
Rod's random thoughts Truth sometimes hurts, but seldom does it kill.

It's not the camera lying, only the friend who sees the picture.

Hate diminishes our capacity for love.

DESIGNER GENES, REDUX

 Not by pre-arrangement did they come,
nor was my birth itself well planned.
My father, a salesman of sorts,
traveled through Oakland in the 30's,
dallied in a dance hall there
and met my mother for a dime.

Had they not coupled in the dance
and then re-coupled in a room somewhere
I might have had less noble blood
than that of dreaming vagabond
                      and ballroom ballerina.

But God is wise beyond all years
and decades he sent driving
                        through the rain
and so I have my father's ears
and on good days my mother's brain.

The body I've been stretched
              and stitched into
seems flexible enough
           and not in need of patching.
My head, while arguably knowledgeable,
stands firm on steady shoulders.
I've got legs that carry me along
                with strength and sureness.

Though I'm aware of my designer genes
I have not sewn a label on my chest.
It is enough for me to know
that I was made from equal parts
of love and need and sharing.
It has eclipsed the need
of ever wearing labels.

- from "The Beautiful Strangers", 1981
 
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Birthday research by Wade Alexander o Poetry from the collection of Jay Hagan o Coordinated by Melinda Smith o Sound & Fury Dr. Eric Yeager o Webmaster Ken Blackie
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