March 4, 2018

Thought for today: 

“But Jesus, when you don’t have money, the problem is food.  When you have money, it’s sex.  When you have both it’s health, you worry about getting rupture or something.  If everything is simply jake then you’re frightened of death.” 

J. P. Donleavy [1926-2017] Ginger Man (1955) chapter 5.

March  3, 2018

FAMILY

Where we first learn

we have no control.

We’re brought home -

given a space and place,

food, words, hopefully

love and affection,

and we scream when

we don’t get our way.

Where we last learn

we had no control.

We leave home,

do school and work,

start our own family,

and hopefully before

we die we figure out

what it was all about.

   

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018 

March 3, 2018

Thought for today: 

“In  the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.”  

Charles Revson [1906-1975] in A. Tobias Fire and Ice (1976), chapter 8.

March 2,  2018

NICKED  

A small stone, something,

struck my windshield 

causing a nick in the glass.

Now It’s there in front of me

every time I drive, 

unless I get it fixed.

At times there are stones

thrown at me by those I love -

nicking me - making me wince.

They hit me in how I see -

how I am - these people who

are always in front of me. Ugh.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 2nd, 2018

Vincent Van Gogh

Thought for today: : 

“Every one is more or less mad on one point.”  

Rudyard Kipling [ 1865-1935], Plain Tales from the Hills (188) ‘On the Strength of a Likeness”

March 1, 2018

FOOTSTEPS

I hear footsteps

from the floor above me ….

I hear footsteps

coming down the corridor

and soon from around the corner ….

I hear footsteps ….

Some I recognize ….

Some I’m wonder, “Whose!”

Some footsteps changed my life.

Some footsteps are no longer heard.

Does anyone wait for my footsteps?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 1st, 2018

March 1, 2018 

Thought for today: 

"Once I realized that Christianity is not a creed and that faith is more a matter of embodiment than of axioms, things changed." 

The Future of Faith by Harvey Cox