Wednesday, August 2, 2023

 August 2, 2023




Quote for Today


"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be."


John Stuart Mill,

Autobiography, Chapter 5

 August 2, 2023





Quote for Today


 “A memorandum is not written to inform the reader but to protect the writer.” 


Dean Acheson (1893-1971)

 


Tuesday, August 1, 2023

 August 1, 2023


Reflection

 August 1, 2023





Quote for Today


"Fortissimo at last!"




Gustav Mahler 

on seeing Niagara Falls

K. Blaukopf, Gustav Mahler  (1973) ch. 8



Monday, July 31, 2023

 July 31, 2023




GALWAY  BAY

 

I finally got there – Galway Bay,

the waters my mom said, “I could

stick my big toe in every morning.”

Water lapped the big rectangular –

back step – grey flat stone – the

only part of the old grey stone

house that once lived there.

I was alone. I was quiet.

I could hear her say in Gaelic,

“It’s beautiful - but I’m out of here

soon – past the Aran Islands –

just off shore and off to Boston.”

And she did what her mother

wanted to do when she was young –

off to Boston – off to a new life.

 

 

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello


 July 31, 2023



Quote for Today



"Too long a sacrifice

Can make a stone of the heart.

O when may it suffice?"



W. B Yeats [1865-1939]

Easter, 1916 [1921]

Sunday, July 30, 2023

 July 30, 2023



GLUE

 

We’re broken ….

We’re split ….

We’re cracked ….

We’ve been dropped a dozen times.

Yet we still might be able to be used

again and again and again,

that is, if we find the right glue

or cement or tape – anything

that would help to put ourselves

back in the game called “life” again.

As long as we don’t mind

that others spot our brokenness.

or crack lines or split stone....

Why not? The world has been split

over and over again …. Like bread -

like Christ – like the Grand Canyon

of his chest - on the cross that day.

 

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello