May 24, 2023

Quote for Today

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.  If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."

Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

 May 23, 2023

THE  PAST

 

The past is never past.

Mistakes, sins, something

I said or did that was dumb

hangs there like a favorite old shirt 

in a dark basement closet for the longest time.

Time – not a Spring cleaning –

is my only hope.

 

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 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]