May 24, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“Don’t let your ego  get too  close to your position, so that  if your position gets shot down, your  ego doesn’t go with it.” 

Colin Powell

May 23, 2018

Reflections

UNSPOKEN CONVERSATIONS -
LETTERS NEVER SENT

There have been too many conversations

I had  with so and so … but they were never

spoken to or at them - only inside my mind.

There have been letters that I wrote but never

sent to them. They were crumbled, ripped up

and tossed into the waste paper basket.

And I was taught - and always thought - unspoken words, crumbled, or deleted words -never spoken or sent, would ever hurt anyone.

Little did I know, wastepaper words, unspoken

feelings can’t remain silent. They become my

face – my scowl - my  itch – my twitch.

They become a virus in my random access memory.

Does unconscious speak to unconscious – and the

other knows – without knowing - the unspoken, the unsaid?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018  

May  23, 2018

Thought for today: 

“Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.  

Abraham Joshua Heschel  [1907-1972]

May 22, 2018

BLOCKAGE

You just don’t get it.

You just don’t know.

You just don’t understand,

because you have become

filled with too much you.

Big bulking question marks

just can’t fit inside your being.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018
Drawing: New Yorker,
September 24, 1960
Saul Steinberg  

May 22, 2018

Thought for today: 

“You grow up the day you have the first real laugh - at yourself.”  

Ethel Barrymore [1879-1959]

May 21, 2018

CAN'T SIN

The silent lily, the green 
grass background, 
just standing there -
shaking, bending,
being there beautiful,
but it can sin,
therefore,  it can't love,
therefore, I rather be me.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018  

May 21, 2018

Thought for today: 

“Don’t ever slam a door;  you might want to go back.”  

Don Herold