January 23, 2023

Quote for Today

"I want to go on living even after death!"

Anne Frank [1929-1945]

Diary April 4, 1944 

 January 22, 2023

REGRETS

 

Regrets – they can be silent

and sneaky – sticking to our

inner skin – making their

appearance on rainy days –

like a bill we didn’t pay –

like meeting someone who

looks like someone who

hurt us back then - back when

things just weren’t going right

for  us. Can we flush them?

Can we forget them by moving

or just becoming better with age –

but as I said they can reappear –

unwanted, ugly and unannounced?

Regrets .... Regrets .... Regrets ....

Not so easy …. Not so easy.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections

REGRETS

They

 January 22, 2023

Quote for Today'

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns, at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement."

Ben  Franklin, 1706-1789]

Poor Richard's Almanac [1758] June

 January 21,   2023

 ELSEWHERE

 

Long before cellphones, people spent

their days in inner conversations with

the other – the key person in their life –

especially when the person is elsewhere.

 

Time there is where and when we are

talking to the important people in our lives –

talking, thinking, being in the heart of

another – but often – we too are elsewhere.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 January 21, 2023

Quote for Today

"Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity. I realize that patriotism is not enough.  I must have no hatred  or bitterness towards anyone."

Edith  Cavell [1865-1915]

English nurse, executed by

the  Germans for assisting 

in to escape of British soldiers

from occupied Belgium.

[The Times October 23, 1915

 January 20, 2023

LAKE TAKANASSEE

 

A mile all around which I walked

1,000 times – not round – not oval –

lake sized – here in West End, N.J. -

with a dozen brand new benches –

on its edge – put there in 2022.

A place to walk – a place to sit –

a place to watch the birds taking off

and landing – on the water - an airport – 

a place to walk every morning or afternoon

or run in the spring, summer, fall evenings.

How long did it take folks to figure out

it was as good a place to be at as

the Atlantic Ocean just a hall mile away?

How many more places around here are

just waiting for me to walk to – to discover?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 January 20, 2023

Quote for Today

"Fidel Castro is right.   You do not quieten your enemy by talking with him like a priest, but by burning him."

Nicolae Ceausescu [1918-1989]

at a Communist meeting 

December 17, 1989