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Rod Mckuen's Book of Days and A Month of Sundays
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From Ken Blackie:
"Man has his seasons. His own times. And while nature makes the colors change, the moons, the tides, man is more accountable for change than he might know.
A Book of Days can be a diary, a collection of ideas, a series of dates to be remembered, a means of putting order into otherwise orderless life, a storehouse of maxims (as well as ‘minimums’), a secret place to treasure private thoughts, or a book to help rekindle the hearts or mind’s memory.
I have chosen to make my first Book of Days all of the above. Instead of starting with January and following the calendar year - I don’t know anyone who successfully keeps a diary that way - I began this book with my favorite season, autumn, and worked from there through winter, spring, and summer.
You will find no particular year set out in this book, because the memories go back as far as my capacity to remember, the years covered are many. Besides, if you plan to write in this book too, it’s unfair to tell you where to begin or where to leave off.
There is space set out for every day of every month, but if you want to remember whether the third of April of some year fell on a Thursday or a Friday, you’ll have to remember to write in for yourself.
For me, the best part of this book is the Month of Sundays near the end. Sunday is always a good day for me. For one thing, the telephone doesn’t ring. Parts of the day can be given over to God and to leisure (sleeping late, reading the paper, playing with the animals).
Like everybody else, I have opinions on just about everything. Sometimes I keep them to myself; more often they wind up in my books, letters, interviews, and conversations. They change even while they are escaping. Collected here are opinions, a little philosophy, some truths I’ve learned, paragraphs that might be thought by some to be overly intimate, and ideas I felt like sharing. And there is plenty of room for your own ideas, memories, dates to remember, diary entries."
"Man has his seasons. His own times. And while nature makes the colors change, the moons, the tides, man is more accountable for change than he might know.
A Book of Days can be a diary, a collection of ideas, a series of dates to be remembered, a means of putting order into otherwise orderless life, a storehouse of maxims (as well as ‘minimums’), a secret place to treasure private thoughts, or a book to help rekindle the hearts or mind’s memory.
I have chosen to make my first Book of Days all of the above. Instead of starting with January and following the calendar year - I don’t know anyone who successfully keeps a diary that way - I began this book with my favorite season, autumn, and worked from there through winter, spring, and summer.
You will find no particular year set out in this book, because the memories go back as far as my capacity to remember, the years covered are many. Besides, if you plan to write in this book too, it’s unfair to tell you where to begin or where to leave off.
There is space set out for every day of every month, but if you want to remember whether the third of April of some year fell on a Thursday or a Friday, you’ll have to remember to write in for yourself.
For me, the best part of this book is the Month of Sundays near the end. Sunday is always a good day for me. For one thing, the telephone doesn’t ring. Parts of the day can be given over to God and to leisure (sleeping late, reading the paper, playing with the animals).
Like everybody else, I have opinions on just about everything. Sometimes I keep them to myself; more often they wind up in my books, letters, interviews, and conversations. They change even while they are escaping. Collected here are opinions, a little philosophy, some truths I’ve learned, paragraphs that might be thought by some to be overly intimate, and ideas I felt like sharing. And there is plenty of room for your own ideas, memories, dates to remember, diary entries."
