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30th & 31st December, 2006		Photo by Edward Habib McKuen. Š2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives A Thought for Today A toast to everything that touched us all year long - friends newly met, old friends here and gone but still remembered. FROM the¨BOOKS PASSING THROUGH We pass the signs the seasons and the signposts now at such a speed that pausing to reflect on what direction means grows harder year by year and yet your God and mine daily holds His breath expecting us to listen and to care about each other. Across the fields beyond the highways and each ocean, I reach out to you hoping I’ll be welcomed by another outstretched hand. For each day in the year just starting and all those days in the years ahead I wish you love and reason in your life and most of all the feeling and reality of our friendship. - from "The Beautiful Strangers", 1981 Click on the Stanyan House logo to buy Rod McKuen books, CD's and lots more Click on the heart logo to subscribe to the Rod McKuen mailing list Catch Rod McKuen live! Click on the links below for details of concerts and appearances. ROD McKUEN CONCERTS ROD McKUEN APPEARANCES



		Saturday 30 December Suzy Bogguss o Joseph Bologna o Paul Bowles o Skeeter Davis o Bo Diddley o Heidi Fleiss o John Hartford o John Hillerman o Davey Jones o Dmitri Kabalevsky o Rudyard Kipling o Sandy Koufax o Matt Lauer o Eliza Little o Jack Lord o Mike Nesmith o Barbara Nichols o Bert Parks o Sheryl Lee Ralph o Del Shannon o Alfred E. Smith o Patti Smith o Noel Paul Stookey o Russ Tamblyn o Tracey Ullman o Jo Van Fleet o Meredith Viera o Fred Ward o Tiger Woods Sunday 31 December New Years Eve Rex Allen o Elizabeth Arden o Paula Barbier o Barbara Carrera o Jacques Cartier o Rosalind Cash o Lord Cornwallis o Burton Cummings o Joe Dallesandro o John Denver o Anthony Hopkins o Jonah Jones o Val Kilmer o Ben Kingsley o Tim Matheson o Henri Matisse o Joe McIntyre o Sarah Miles o Pola Negri o Bebe Neuwirth o Odetta o Nino Rota o George Schlatter o Patti Smith o Goran Sollscher o Jule Styne o Donna Summer

		A Toast: May your hand be full for always, if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again. The promise is the promise. We seldom have to hunt it down; it finds us by its own direction. Here comes the miracle you prayed for but certainly didn't expect.

A PROMISE		When all the trees have been dismantled the decorations of their leaves set by birch to brown, maple to black roots pulled up and tumbled in a pile and when the sun has scurried up from darkness and back to darkness for the final time, with every ocean gone leaving only traces, a ring around its rim, then I will love you more than now. We will have gone beyond impossibles with no restraining rein and we will both come back again to this same place. I will love you better then and more. I will have learned from loving how to love. - from "Suspension Bridge," 1984

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