27th & 28th September, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photo by Jay Hagan, 7/12/08 Burbank, CA

A Thought for Today

Always try to be on time, but take along something to read. Everyone might not be as punctual as you are.

 

A FEW NOTES

I’m taking the weekend off but I hope you’ll check out the poem I’ve selected for today, along with the random thoughts (maxims and minimums).

On Saturday I’ll be toasting the birth date of tara Scofield, who initiated the first McKuen website on the net. Sunday Edward and I will celebrate Mom’s birthday by taking the last roses of the summer garden to her final resting place.

Sleep warm.

RM 9/26/08

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notable birthdays

Saturday 27 September

Samuel Adams o Louis Auchincloss o Wilford Brimley o Shaun Cassidy o William Conrad o George Cruikshank o Sam Ervin o Barbara Howar o Stephan Jenkins o Avril Lavigne o A Martinez o Jayne Meadows o Meat Loaf o Greg Morris o Patrick Muldoon o Thomas Nast o Kathleen Nolan o Arthur Penn o Charles Percy o Dick Schaap o Mike Schmidt o tara Scofield o Sada Thompson o Richard W. Ward o Vincent Youmans

Sunday 28 September

Thomas Allen o Brigitte Bardot o Skye Bartusiak o Al Capp o Georges Clemenceau o Hilary Duff o Peter Finch o Janeane Garofalo o Tom Harmon o Joel Higgins o Cathy Kenefick o Ben E. King o Sylivia Kristal o Fiona Lewis o Marcello Mastroianni o Clarice Hooper McKuen o Gwyneth Paltrow o Elmer Rice o Max Schmeling o Mira Sorvino o Arnold Stang o Ed Sullivan o William Windom o Moon Unit Zappa
Rod's random thoughts Nothing is more beautiful than the word completed.

Contracts are the graffiti of grownups.

Solitude is company without demands.

THE MOON AS A MIRAGE

 Buzz saw-like, the full moon now
begins to slice through lower clouds
so steadily and purposeful it must be
                 marching to the rhythm
of this moment, yours and mine.

Do not look away or you might miss
its climb across this heaven and its slide
back down the inside of another day.
Moons filling should be savored
                             as they swell.

It will do no good to try and summon
this one later in the week. Make,
merry, celebrate its circumference while
it widens in its vaults and acrobatics.
As I grow against you press in close
and take another longer glance over
my shoulder at the rising and the rising
                                     of the moon.

-from Rusting in the Rain, 2001
 
     
 
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