November 21,  2022

Reflection

APPEARANCE VS. REALITY

There is appearance and there is reality.

Sometimes they match.

Sometimes when they don't seem to match; uproar happens.

Appearance is a reality.

 November 21, 2022

Monday - Thought for Today

"Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier."

Lillian Hellman [1905-1984]

The Autumn Garden [1951] Act I

November 20, 2022

Reflection 

I DID

What's a man - or a woman - to do when their spouse has died - not physically - but emotionally?

What's woman a man to do when their spouse refuses to talk about it to each other - or to a counselor?

 November 20, 2022

Sunday - Thought for Today

"There comes a time in every man's life and  I've had many of them."

Casey Stengel  [c, 1890 - 1975]

Remark

 November 19,  2022

Reflection``

IRELAND

I'm about to take a trip to Ireland.

For starters  - here we're sitting on the tarmac tonight. Aer Lingus - the take off - talking - reading - sleeping - waking up in the morning - to see the green - fields down there - out our airbus windows.

Ireland....

Coming home to the place where I could have been born - if mom and dad stayed there - married there -  like their brother and sister did - over there.

If they stayed there, would there be a me?

Life.  Mystery. Where we come from. Where we are. How we got to be who and where we are from.

Ah sweet mystery of life ....

We're here....

First: the bus ride - looking out the windows - with American eyes - inner sights as well - and the questions - the what if's, the what might have beens ....

Are there answers to what if's - other than the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life."

Are their poems other than,"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...."? No one can take both roads.

Am I asking everybody''s questions? Does everyone wonder about roads - the roads I took and the different roads I never took.

I'm sure these questions are louder and clearer after the death of loved ones - or divorce from broken ones.

Is this the origen of the word, "Interesting" - when it is said long and slow and has a pondering overtone.

Ireland - I'm saying to myself - if I was born here - I'd be speaking Gaelic.  If born here[ would I have become a priest?  If born here, would I be the youngest or would I even be?

I'll find answers to some of my questions as I go down different roads - especially the roads of Galway.

Ooops! I still need to unpack so much.

November 19, 2022 

Saturday - Thought for Today

"If only we could know what was going on in a baby's mind while observing him in action we would  certainly understand everything there is to psychology."

Jean Piaget [1896-1980]

La Premiere Aunee de l'Efant [1927]

 November 18, 2022

Reflection

ANNAPOLIS

Circles: Church Circle, State Circle, and the downtown circle that I'm not sure if it has a name - at the bottom of Main Street.

Restaurants: Cafe Normandy, McGarvey's, Galway Bay, Picola Roma, Chick and Ruth's ....

Gardens: St. Mary's, Paca House, ....

Red bricks: Lots of red bricks.

Churches: St. Mary's, St. Anne's, The Presbyterian Church, so man more - once you get out of the downtown area.

Naval Academy: with its youth and its uniforms....

St. John's College: with its Great Books history ....

Benches: the Seelos Bench at St. Mary's, key benches around town to give the weary walker a break....

People: Buckwheat, the Mayor, the Governor, the Speaker of the House, visitors, the Traffic Control people giving tickets and citations....

Shops T-shirt shops, Storm Brother's Ice Cream, trinket and souvenir shops ....

Alleys: guick sneak throughs to the next street....

Annapolis: 17 of the best years of my life....