May 25, 2023

Quote for Today

"Now feel  the heart break in the heart of things."

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962)

Englis poet, "Lament" (1918)

May 24, 2023

COMFORTABLE

 

What’s wrong with having comfortable

as a goal. Nothings wrong with that –

unless we’re not facing uncomfortable

things we need to face and deal with?

Comfortable chairs and beds and to be

with people we’re comfortable with.

That sounds like a great goal in life.

Sometimes we have to tell another person

they are heading in the wrong direction.

Now that can be very uncomfortable!

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 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