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Rod at
Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod
McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006,
2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved.
A Thought for Today
Let's be a little nicer to each other,
everyone is fighting a hard battle.
FROM the¨BOOKS
THE FIRST
No matter when I start
that first day's walk
along the tide's white ragged edge,
someone's been ahead of me.
I went at noon the first day,
ten the next.
Finally at sunrise
I started out
and on this very morning
I was up before the sun
guided by the whitecaps only
luminous in the dimming starlight.
When at last the light
began to rim the far horizon
I saw beside my own, new footprints
in the Monday sand
a larger imprint trailing on
ahead of me.
And beside the wide stride
on this quiet beach
the soft impression of a dog
who must have trotted
by his master's side.
I've but one more morning
left to me
before I trade Tres Vidas
for the city,
but if I have to start out
down the beach at midnight
or before
I'm determined to confront
the brown beach man
who dares to think
he loves my ocean
more than me.
And anyway,
the ocean's all
that I have left.
There won't be anyone again,
but there will always be
sea water and sea things
to wash the memories
into one another.
That's a comfort
not to be taken lightly,
considering the sea
is all I have.
-from "Moment To Moment" 1973, 1975
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Monday
26 November
John Carter o
Olivia Cole o
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John McVie o
Marian Mercer o
Charles M. Schulz o
Eric Sevareid o
Betta St. John o
Tina Turner o
Marcy Walker o
Earl Wilde o
Emlyn Williams
Tuesday 27 November
James Agee o
Floyd Cramer o
Alexander Dubcek o
Robin Givens o
Jimi Hendrix o
Brooke Langton o
Bruce Lee o
David Merrick o
Bill Nye o
Eddie Rabbitt o
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“Buffalo Bob” Smith o
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Courage like cowardliness is contagious, but only the brave seem to catch it.
Let go of your anger. It doesn't justify the memory chips it takes to store it.
Heroes aren't heroes, until they are tested.
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Letter Never Sent
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Some nights your sighs
do not tear up the blackness
on other nights they boil it down
to nothing.
It comes and goes.
A quarrel over lovers,
a dare not taken up.
Love, a cup half full,
not filling up again.
By what divining light
does heat turn into mildew?
Where does the blurring start
between providence and progress?
Ever up ahead
another river road.
Another blank page to be filled
and one more beating heart,
someone would like to stop,
that won't be
stilled.
And this is but another letter
that I never sent
and never meant to.
-from "The
Sea Cycle" which was published by Warner Bros. Records, by special permission from
Cheval-Stanyan, as part of the boxed set of recordings "The Complete Sea," in
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