SPRING IS COMING

"Anois teacht an Earraigh"

That's the Gaelic for: "Now Comes the Spring."

March 23, 2018

GOD  AT?

God at 7?
God at 11?
God at 17?
God at 21?
God at 26?
God at 33?
God at 50?
God at 67?
God at 77?
God at 78?

Oh my God, 
some people
drop you, lose you, 
laze out about you, 
back there at 17 or 33, or 67....
Not me. 
I'm still with you - 
you looking for me,
me looking for you -
half way to 79.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018 

March 23, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“It was  the  experience 

of mystery - 

even if mixed with fear - 

that engendered religion.” 

Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies, 1931

March 22, 2018

DIFFERENT

Different brings different ….

Some more than others.

Different: whether it’s a new job,

a new boss or a new move to

another town - different like death.

Oops that last one puts different

in a new perspective - like a new baby.

Different brings different….

Some more than others.

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 22, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“It seems  hard to look at God’s cards.  But that he plays dice and uses ‘telepathic’ methods (as the present quantum theory requires of him) is something that I cannot believe for a single moment.”  

Albert Einstein, letter to Conelius Lanczos, February 14, 1938, in Helen Dukas and Banesh Hofman, Albert Einstein: The Human Side, 1979

March 21, 2018

MURDER  MYSTERY:

MELANOMA

Melanoma

Plot: murdered by cancer.

My brother loved to read mysteries,

but his own mystery he wanted to

stop reading as soon as he knew the plot:

death by cancer.

Melanoma.

The detective work became the next chapter.

The killer had moved through the dark red rivers

of my brother’s body - this time hiding in his brain.

A tumor had erupted - a mass -  behind his eye.

Chemotherapy - the loss of hair, the loss of strength.

Melanoma.

My brother, died this day, March 21, 1986.

He was in the hospital. The brain surgery didn’t work.

My brother, a book finished, a mystery, finished

too soon - but with many more pages and chapters to go, so many more stories to tell - 

Melanoma.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 21, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“Literature is  news  that stays news.”  

Ezra Pound, How to Read, 1931