May 23, 2023

Quote for Today

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."

Norman Douglas

 (South Wind (1917) Chapter 6

 May 22, 2023

A FEW DAYS

 

A few days of life and then

one lives forever – forever.

We don’t pay attention to

that – but if we did,  it would

or could give us a dimension

that brings into us morality, God,

and how we see and do life.

That doesn't hit us till it does.

 

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 May 22, 2023

Quote for Today

"A herd of elephant ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world."

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) 1885-1962

Out of Africa (1937) pt. 1, ch. 1

 May 21, 2023

DOORS

 

What are the doors we pause before opening?

What are the doors we can’t wait to open?

What are the doors we can’t wait to close?

What are the doors we want to lock?

What are the doors we wonder what’s on the other

side of?

What are  the doors leading to secrets behind the 

scenes?

What are the doors that led to total surprise?

What are the doors to the church we said our last 

prayer in?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 May 21, 2023

Quote for Today

"Men at forty

Learn to close softly

The doors to rooms they will not be

Coming back to."

Donald Justice,

American poet

from Men at Forty [1967]

 May 20, 2023

 

ILLUSIONS

 

We use them to avoid facing

our knowing – our knowing –

that we have some unfinished business –

that ism’t being done. It’s something

we just don’t want to face.

It’s something we just

don’t want  to do. We’re lazy.

So we create an illusion.

It’s a fake truth we say

is a  truth we know isn’t true.

But often that slips into

a believed reality and it’s

then we’re living an illusion.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 May 20, 2023

Quote for Today

"If grass can grow through cement. love can find you at every time in your life."

Cher

in The Times, May 10, 1998