Saturday, January 21, 2023

 January 21,   2023



 ELSEWHERE

 

Long before cellphones, people spent

their days in inner conversations with

the other – the key person in their life –

especially when the person is elsewhere.

 

Time there is where and when we are

talking to the important people in our lives –

talking, thinking, being in the heart of

another – but often – we too are elsewhere.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello


 January 21, 2023







Quote for Today


"Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity. I realize that patriotism is not enough.  I must have no hatred  or bitterness towards anyone."


Edith  Cavell [1865-1915]

English nurse, executed by

the  Germans for assisting 

in to escape of British soldiers

from occupied Belgium.

[The Times October 23, 1915

Friday, January 20, 2023

 January 20, 2023





LAKE TAKANASSEE

 

A mile all around which I walked

1,000 times – not round – not oval –

lake sized – here in West End, N.J. -

with a dozen brand new benches –

on its edge – put there in 2022.

A place to walk – a place to sit –

a place to watch the birds taking off

and landing – on the water - an airport – 

a place to walk every morning or afternoon

or run in the spring, summer, fall evenings.

How long did it take folks to figure out

it was as good a place to be at as

the Atlantic Ocean just a hall mile away?

How many more places around here are

just waiting for me to walk to – to discover?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello


 January 20, 2023




Quote for Today


"Fidel Castro is right.   You do not quieten your enemy by talking with him like a priest, but by burning him."


Nicolae Ceausescu [1918-1989]

at a Communist meeting 

December 17, 1989





Thursday, January 19, 2023

 January 19, 2023




UNDERNEATH  IT  ALL

 

Sometimes we just have to do it.
We need to take our chances.
We need to show up and sign up.
We need to love and try to serve.
Okay. Even though underneath it all – 
we’re nervous. We have the shakes.
Love is needed and we don’t think 
love is there, Yet we get up and do it.
We flower.  It's then we finally realize 
what is underneath it all – the real me 
becoming free - the real me loving me.


 

© Reflections, Andy Costello


 January 19, 2023




Quote for Today


"The poet is the priest of the invisible."


Wallace Stevens [1879-1955]

Adagio   [1957]

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

 January 18, 2023




LOVE  IS  AN  ALWAYS

 

Sometimes love seems so easy  -

especially when we want to sing it -

but when it's tough times – when

it’s rough times, then -  that's when

it's time to really love – to really

to mean the words, when it's time

to really do the words. Amen.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello