TRUE FRIENDS

Quote for the Day - June 13, 2010


"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."


Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923

JESUS THE FRUIT OF
HER WOMB - HANGING 
ON THE TREE OF THE CROSS -
TAKE AND EAT!

Quote for today - Celebrating the Immaculate Heart of Mary - June 10, 2010


"Eve sought the fruit,
but did not find there
what she wished for.
In her fruit
the Blessed Virgin found
all that Eve had wanted."


St. Thomas Aquinas [1225-1274], in Exposition of the Hail Mary, 13th century.


Painting on top by an unknown artist. It's entitled, "Virgin Mary - Undoer of Knots". It has been in the church of St. Peter in Perlack, Germany since 1700. The literature on this image of Mary says, "It was originally inspired by a meditation of St. Ireneus - based on the comparison between Eve and Mary." An added text based on the words of Ireneus could be: "Eve, by her disobedience tied the knot of disgrace for the human race; Mary, full of Grace, by her obedience, untied it for the human race."

STUDY THE HEART 

Quote on this Day - Feast of the Sacred Heart - June 11, 2010

"Japanese poetry has as its subject the human heart. It may seem to be of no practical use and just as well left uncomposed, but when one knows poetry well, one understands also without explanation the reasons governing order and disorder in the world."

Kamo Mabuchi [1697-1769] Writings

CIRCUMSTANCES

Quote of the Day - June 10, 2010

"We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all."

Said by Antonin Artaud [1896-1948] - French playwright, actor, director and poet.

Picture on top from the Internet. For scenes from Arthur Miller's play, Death of A Salesman type into Google: Youtube Death of a Salesman - Dust in the Wind

ARTIST!  ARTIST! 

Quote of the Day  - June 9, 2010

"Though, 
I have looked everywhere

I can find nothing lowly
in the universe."

A.R. Ammons {1926-2001], Still [1972]

RED  BLANKET - MORNING SKY

Quote for the Day - June 8, 2010

"Screaming the night away
With his great white feathers
Swooping the darkness up;
I hear the Eagle bird
Pulling the blanket back
Of from the eastern sky."

Invitation Song [Iroquois], Anonymous




December 2, 2009 - 7:48 Morning sky - St. Mary's Parking Lot - Annapolis, looking out over Carroll Gardens and Spa Creek.

ALL ALONE

The house is quiet ….
A Saturday night ….
Nobody’s home but me….
Surprise! It hits me that
this might be the first time
in a long time everybody’s out.
Wonderful ….
Yet at other times a moment
like this would trigger my emptiness –
my need for family …
for sound and shuffle,
another in another room.
But not now, not this night….
I’m just sitting here enjoying the all alone
the quiet – with the ALL ALONE.
Lord, have you been waiting for me
in a moment like this as well
or do you too just want to be ALL ALONE ?

© Andy Costello, Prayers, 2010