February 2, 2016

POTATO  CHIPS 

Too - too - often - potato chips -

slip between our lips without

our tasting any one of them.

We don’t savor the salt flavor

of each chip - the salt that

sticks to our tongue. Too - too -

often our years slip by so quickly

and unconsciously - without our

even tasting the delicious salt on

each decisive and significant moment

of our lives and we toss the empty

bag of time into a plastic trash can

and we grab a fresh bag of chips.

There’s nothing worse than stale

potato chips - dreams that fell to the

floor - which are swept away the

next morning - another day - too -

too - often never savored or tasted.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016
I learned this theme about not being
mindful from Thich Nhat Hanh,
the Vietnamese Buddhist  monk.

In the Google search engine, type in "Mindfulness Thich Nhat Hanh" and you'll be able to watch and hear Thich Nhat Hanh teach about mindfulness.