June 24, 2023

Quote for Today 

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life , it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Middlemarch (1871-2)

Bk. 2, ch. 20

June 23, 2023 

Reflection

 June 23, 2023

Quote for Today

"Fred's studies are not very deep ... he is only reading a novel."

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Middlemarch (1871-2)

bk.1, sch. 11

 June 22, 2023

Quote for Today

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."

Duke of Windsor (1894-1936)

 June 22, 2023

Reflection

 June 21, 2023

 

COLD  MORNING

Cold and crisp.

needing a coat.

It’s cold outside

and

it’s the first day of summer.

This weather, God,

is supposed to be

more organized –

more easy to predict.

This cold spell is a “How come?”

and I have a lot of them lately.

How come?

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 

 June 21, 2023

Quote for Today

"When  men understand what each other means, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either  superfluous or hopeless."

John Henry Newman,

Truth and Reason in 

Oxford University Sermons (1843)