July 3, 2021
Thought for the Day
“Call
on God, but row away from the rocks.”
Indian
Proverb
Saturday, July 3, 2021
July 3, 2021
One way to put it - is simply - to say:
“We’re called to make life easier
and a blessing for each other each day.”
Grease it up! Help
people to make it
through the crowd – on the street – in
train stations – in the dance of life.
“We’re called to make life easier
and a blessing for each other each day.”
through the crowd – on the street – in
train stations – in the dance of life.
The teenage years can be tough. How about
when someone loses: a job – or a kid –
or a spouse in divorce or death.
need grease – peace – comfort – exercise -
laughter – recognition – and acknowledgement
Remember what Jesus said, “Don’t forget
what it’s like to be a kid again. Be one!”
Friday, July 2, 2021
July 2, 2021
RIVERS
Stop - whenever you see a river.
Just close your eyes –
and hear its swagger,
it's swirls and its roll.
Just open up your eyes
and see its flow.
America has them – rivers.
The mighty Mississippi -
the deep Hudson –
the searching Shenandoah,
the St. Lawrence and the Rio Grande,
the Colorado and the Columbia.
Go to Pittsburgh and see the Alleghany
and the Monongahela flowing till they
become the Ohio with its coal boats.
Rivers!
And this
is just one country with all its rivers
and they are just one of the Creator's great
imaginations – rivers - Holy Water – Sacred flow.
There's more! Keep moving! Keep living.
and hear its swagger,
it's swirls and its roll.
and see its flow.
the deep Hudson –
the searching Shenandoah,
the St. Lawrence and the Rio Grande,
the Colorado and the Columbia.
and the Monongahela flowing till they
become the Ohio with its coal boats.
and they are just one of the Creator's great
imaginations – rivers - Holy Water – Sacred flow.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
July 2, 2021
Thought
for the Day
“Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is the getting lost. And when you are lost, you start to look around and to listen.”
Corey
Fischer. Albert Greenberg,
and Naomi Newman of
A Traveling Jewish Theater,
Coming from a Great Distance
Thursday, July 1, 2021
July 1, 2021
PERHAPS, PERHAPS, PERHAPS
Life - perhaps 56 % of it is, "Perhaps!"
Or "Maybe".
Or "You never know."
Or "I'll let you know."
Or "I need some time to think about this."
Life? Is it a dance?
Life? Or am I in a trance?
Or "Maybe".
Or "You never know."
Or "I'll let you know."
Or "I need some time to think about this."
Life? Is it a dance?
Life? Or am I in a trance?
Sometimes .... Most of the time ....
Perhaps .... Perhaps .... Perhaps....
Perhaps .... Perhaps .... Perhaps....
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
July 1, 2021
Thought
for the Day
“We
are what we remember of ourselves.”
Michael Anderson,
Michael
Anderson, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge
who studies memory. How you will
remember your life as an 80-year-old will depend on the ways you hold on to, or
let go of, memories. Your brain is
always in the process of forgetting, but
Anderson believes you can forget with more intentionality – what he calls
motivated forgetting – and that you can get better at it with practice. ‘You sculpt your memories,’ he says.” page 17
in an article by Malia Wollan, “How to Forget Something,” in the New York
Times Magazine, for May 9, 2021
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
June 30, 2021
MOVING BEYOND
SCROUNGE
If our life gets into the fast lane and
and if it stays there – we might find
ourselves scrounging for time, for sleep,
for eating, for conversations with each
other – and for some – time for God.
A flat tire, a traffic jam, someone
avoiding us – because we are by
passing them over and over again
can wake us up. We have to read to
the signs of the time: STOP, YIELD ....
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
June 29, 2021
Coming up the street,
coming home,
after a long day,
after a wrong day,
not every day –
but today – yes ....
"No, everything
went wrong, nothing
went right." I was cut
by a nasty comment,
not recognized,
not listened to,
not acknowledged,
just ignored once more,
once again. ,
needing a hug, a hello,
a "Welcome home!"
[Silence!]
"Thank you!"
“Now, just sit down for 15 minutes.”
“Hi Dad!”
“I had a bad day at school today.”
“Come here and tell me about it.”
[Voice from the kitchen:]
“Supper will be ready in 20 minutes.”
a "Welcome home!"
[Silence!]
"Thank you!"
“Now, just sit down for 15 minutes.”
“Hi Dad!”
“I had a bad day at school today.”
“Come here and tell me about it.”
[Voice from the kitchen:]
“Supper will be ready in 20 minutes.”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
Monday, June 28, 2021
Sunday, June 27, 2021
June 27, 2021
FINAL EDITION
Does a poem differ
if I write it with a red pen –
instead of my regular blue ink
ball point pen?
How about: does it differ
depending on what I had for supper
and the conversation we had
during it was a good one?
A poem has to come
from somewhere – something
on the lawn or on the kitchen table
or a surprise phone call.
Everything and everyone
are interconnected. Too often
I’m not connecting with the everyone.
Write poems! You
too God. You too!
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
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