July 24,  2021

Reflection 

July  24,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Solvitur ambulando.  It is solved by walking.”  

Saint Augustine

 July 23,  2021

Reflection

July  23,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

“To be someone is, precisely, to be responsible.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 July  22,  2021

GOD  OF  THE  MORNING

 [To be hummed or sung slowly and softly alone or with others.]

Oh God of the morning,

Oh God of the morning,
Oh God of the morning,
be this day, my light.
 
Oh God of the morning,
Oh God of the morning,
Oh God of the morning,
be this day, my delight.
 
Oh God of the morning,
Oh God of the morning,
Oh God of the morning,
protect me till tonight.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July  22,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Remember you are all people and all people are you.”

 

Joy Harjo, “Remember”

July  21,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Let poetry be difficult,  very difficult,  the difficulty of a deep ocean,  but not obscure, the obscurity of a muddy shallow little lake.”

 

Peter Vieeck,

Parnassus 17,  no. 2

 July 21,  2021

Reflection

 July   20,  2021

Reflection

July  20,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“A poetry bestseller is any book that sells four or five copies in any given store.”

 

Michael Wiegers,

Hungry Mind Reviews

Spring 1997

July  19,  2021 

Thought for the Day

 

“A bitter truth is better than a sweet lie.”

 

Zbigniew  Herbert,

PN Review, No. 26. 1982

July 19,  2021 

Reflection

 July 18,  2021

Reflection

 July  18,  2021 

Thought for the Day

 

“Writing poetry is the best way I know of untying the knot of obsession.  It’s cheaper than therapy and better for you than getting drunk.”

 

Gwyneth Lewis,

Poetry Book

Society Bulletin,

Summer 2003