October  30, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Purity does not lie in separation from, but in deeper penetration into the universe.”  

Teilhard de Chardin

WALK  AWAY

Walking away when angry -

Smart move.  We see much

more from a distance. When

we walk we talk to ourselves.

We don’t get blurt stains on

our white shirts or sweaters.

We get wise sayings on our

soul’s T-shirts as well as neat
bumper stickers sayings within.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

October  29, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful / is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”  

Mary Oliver in her poem, 

Franz Marc’s Blue Horses.  

Page 21 in Mary Oliver, 

Devotions, The Selected 

Poems of Mary Oliver.

October 28, 2019

EMPTY  APOLOGIES

I hate fake apologies,

throw-a-ways, excuse me’s.

I want to see apologies,

changes that are obvious,

different.  I want to see

changes that last till the end

of this month and year - at least.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

October  28, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.”  

Jose Ortega y Gasset, 

The Dehumanization of Art -

an essay in Spanish, 1925.

Then Princeton published 

the first English translation 

of the essay paired with another 

entitled "Notes on the Novel." 

Three essays were later added 

to make an expanded edition, 

published in 1968, under the 

title The Dehumanization of Art 

and Other Essays on Art, 

Culture and Literature .

October 27,  2019

BUDDHA

I’m no Buddha.

I’d get leg cramps

if I had to sit like the Buddha all day.

I wouldn’t notice

kids playing or nudging

each other if my eyes

were closed like that all day.

Well, then are you the Christ?

I talk to people at water fountains.

I see sparrows and learn lessons

from the flowers of the field.

I’m ready to share my bread and wine.

But to be honest,

I’m not ready to pick up a cross each day.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

October  27th, 2019

Thought for today: 

“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact elephants often consult me.”  

Noel Coward. Quoted 

J. K. Galbraith  in 

A Life In Our Times 1981]