DON BLANDING
"Today is Here"
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1946
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 143 pages
Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding
Cover design by Val Samuelson
Dedication:
To all
Who gave this day
To us
I dedicate
This book
In heart-felt gratitude
Various acknowledgements: Carmel Pine Cone-Cymbal, Rob Wagner's Script, Chaparral Horizons, Mike Roberts, Castle Company, American Bard, Jennye McGriff, Think Tank, Readers Digest, Dodd, Mead & Co., Norman Soreng Wright, Fred Genee, Peggy Handley, Raymond Whalley.
Contents:
| Tomorrow is Today Plea of the Book Explanation, Not Apology Today is Here Twenty-four Camels Morning Prayer Isle of Pua-Loa Opal Mosaic Walk Tall Now My Poem to Spring Gift Wrappings An Old Prayer and a New One Unidentified For a Newly Blinded Soldier Courage of Laughter A Thousand Years Ago It is a Weary Thing The Bones of the Dreams of Men A Name for My Mountain Aunt Cally-isms More Aunt Cally-isms Values How Tall is a Hero? Homesick for Kona Desert Cinderella Road-Maps Pagan Hour One Man's Meat... The Centaur's Way |
The Autumn Years Watercolor Sketch in Gray Twelve Steps Today Wordachrome of Golden Gate Bridge Bryce Canyon Wordachrome Friends Legion Shall We Forget? Wonder in Our Hearts Dreamers' Jewels Star-Gems Two in One If You Can't Say It, Sneeze It The Friendly Rain Walk in the Rain Proof Heart's Radar A Mountain in My Heart Monument For an Old, Old Lady Pool of Peace Silent Service Whim Night Strollers Silver Scimitars Let's Take a Walk A Dish of Ice-Cream Eagle Hearts Tall in the Forest The Lady in the Cockeyed Hat |
Lonesome Skunk Bird of Evil Flame Rock of Ages Black Dogwood Blossoms Gift Day In Futile Mood Real Estate Values Change, Miss Millay Bonds of Hate Guarded Beauty I'm Glad I Was Born When I Was Born Treasure High School Class, 1946 The Circle Fuchsia Ballet Desert Wordachrome Crater Lake Wordachrome What is It? Sea-Horses Hollywood Boulevard A Fishy Wish This Too Too Solid Flesh Listen to Your Voice August Lady Be With Us, Lord, In Times of Peace Hymn, Be With Us, Lord We Will Never Die A Talisman For You Why the Bird? |
Illustrations:
| Frontispiece Today is Here... From a Clipper Pua-Loa of the Many Flowers Bird Woman Spring Flowers Unidentified Thousand Years Ago, Quirigua Mount Scott, Lawton, Oklahoma Torch Fisherman Sequoia Satyr Autumn Rain |
Friends, Old Pine and Setting Sun Scarf of Stars, Esther Baldwin York Friendly Rain Proof, Butterfly and Caterpillar Mountain, Mt. Whitney, California Monument, Effie May Pool of Peace Anthurium Silver Scimitars Ballet of Weeds Cockeyed Hat |
Turban Bird of Evil Flame Black Dogwood Blossoms, Edythe Hope Genee Aloes Desert Star Begonia Leaf Fuchsia Ballet Sea-Horses Kihi-Kihi Fishes August Lady Hymn |
Notes:
Esther Baldwin York posed for Illustration for Wonder in Our Hearts.
Edythe Hope Genee posed for the illustrations for Black Dogwood Blossoms and
Lady in the Cockeyed Hat.
A Thousand Years Ago was written for Dorothy Blanding.
Aunt Cally-isms was written for Aunt Caledonia Abernanthy.
Twelve Steps Today was written for Maxwell Walker, from Ft. Pierce, Florida.
Heart's Radar was written for Scotty Creager.
Pool of Peace was written for Mabel Goode Frantz.
A Dish of Ice-Cream was written for Anna Blom.
Lady in the Cockeyed Hat was written for Hedda Hopper.
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