June 9, 2018
Thought for today:
“Some days you tame the tiger.
And some days the tiger has you for lunch.”
Tug McGraw
Saturday, June 9, 2018
June 9, 2018
RELICS
Even if there are no fingerprints
or indications on a rock or a piece
of wood - every pebble, every twig,
every everything - is a holy relic.
Each - whatever this is - is a relic
with a story - a chip off the old block -
and can lead us to pause, to pray,
to a sense of the sacred, to know God.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018
Friday, June 8, 2018
June 8, 2018
JUDGING OTHERS
Stop judging me.
You do it all the time.
I know - because I do it too.
But you have no clue why
I like butter almond ice cream
or why I like to put cold butter
with my peanut butter on rye bread.
You don’t know the why of my why’s
and most of the time I don’t either.
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2018
Thursday, June 7, 2018
BOUNCE EFFECT
Of course there is the bounce effect ….
Smiles beget smiles ….
Sound bounces off walls -
echoes in rooms
and down the halls ….
Cells, microbes, germs, viruses,
squeeze against each other - as
people do in a a NYC subway car
people do in a a NYC subway car
at 8:02 - on a going to work morning ….
Anger, screams, slamming noises
begets more and more angry noises ….
Every word - all aggression -
doesn’t just happen -
it’s loaded with
the garbage barges
of nasty smells from up river ….
So let me place these words
like a paper boat on the water
and let them float till they bounces into you ....
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2018
June 7, 2018
Thought for today:
“People ‘died’ all the time …. Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions -
decisions against life. Sometimes they
died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking
around. If you were perceptive you could
see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out … you always knew when you made a
decision against life…. The door clicked and you were safe inside - safe and
dead.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)