NERVOUS

IN THE PRESENCE 

OF EXCELLENCE

Quote of the Day: January 10, 2010

“The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.”

Shana Alexander [1925-2005], The Feminist Eye: Neglected Kids – The Bright Ones, 1970

YOU'RE   BEAUTIFUL

Quote of the Day: January 9,  2010

“I’m tired of all this business about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas.”

Jean Kerr [1922-2003], Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, in The Snake Has All the Lines.

A TEACHER CALLED ILLNESS

Quote of the Day: January 8,  2010

"Illness tells us what we are."






Italian Proverb

IN A RUT?

Quote of the Day:  January 7,  2010


“Choose your rut carefully; you’ll be in it for the next ten miles.”


Road sign in Upstate New York

DÉJÀ VU

“Happy New Year!” I hear that
from all those around me at this
year's New Year’s Eve Party.
I hear the horns – along with
the fireworks in the distance –
along with the hugs and kisses
of the present moment. But now
that I’m 70, the fear of déjà vu
is the loudest horn, the loudest
bang – the kiss that I can’t miss....
Yet, I stand there, hope in hand,
risks in mind, remembering
all those screaming dreams
I want to realize before I die:
the resolve to avoid all those déjà vu’s
that would prevent a Happy New Year.

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2010

FRIENDSHIPS

Quote of the Day:  January 6, 2010

“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible.”

Henry Brooks Adams [1838-1918], The Education of Henry Adams, 1916

Picture with two friends and classmates, Tom Deely [Right] and Clem Krug [Left] in Montana - 2004 - while doing a Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Vacation

COMPLAIN - 

COMPLAIN - COMPLAIN

Quote for the Day:  January 5,  2010



“I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”



Jane Wagner [1935- ], The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1986, performed by Lily Tomlin [1939- ]