September 2, 2023
Quote for Today
"Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis."
Theodore Reik
Saturday, September 2, 2023
September 1, 2023
EPHRATA
Today I arrived in a new place:
Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
New life, a new place to live.
It's from the word, "Ephrath".
That's the Syriac, Aramaic, Hebrew
name for Bethlehem where Jesus was born.
What will, what can, what hope
do I have for this interesting name
of a place in Lancaster County, PA?
Our religious community, the Redemptorists,
came here in 1914.
Ephrata was started by another religious community,
a semimonastic order of male and female
Seven Day Dunkers - back in 1732.
It's now a town of about 14,000 people.
Interesting! We'll see. What's next?
(c) Reflections, Andy Costello
September 1, 2023
September 1, 2023
Quote for Today
"There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words ... love and achievement .... In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy .... The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
Theodor Reik
Thursday, August 31, 2023
August 31, 2023
Reflection
LITTLE WORDS
There are a dozen little words
that can make for a better conversation:
or, but, yes, no, help, thanks, sorry,
please, why, how, what, when?
Some short sentences are also good:
"But you didn't ask!";
"You could have said....";
"Maybe there is a better way."
Then again, there is the old saying:
"Teach thy tongue say, 'I don't know!'"
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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