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

 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]

 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

 July 30, 2023

Quote for Today

"I've always had a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."

Dorothy Sayers [1893-1957]

Have His Carcase (1932)

 July 29, 2023

GREASE

Grease up your feet,

your dancing and your singing.

Others will ignore you - that

you're having fun - but look around -

enjoy the music, the motions, the emotions -

Who was it who said, 

"God the Trinity is in a deep dance,

calling us out onto the dance floor.

(C) Andy Costello, Reflections