Sunday, December 16, 2018


December 16, 2018 

Thought for today: 


“Life begins at the end of your comfort  zone.”

Saturday, December 15, 2018

December 15, 2018




IT’S  A  WONDERFUL LIFE

Every Christmas hopefully we watch
one of the 25 movies that make up
the gospel of film - those movies that
move us and get us to realize, “It’s
a Wonderful Life” and life is not a
Groundhog Day” - we don't have to 
keep repeating ourselves - or “Casablanca” -
we don’t have to lose each other.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018





December 15, 2018 

Thought for today: 



“E=mc2” "[Energy equals mass of light squared.]  The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2.].”  



Albert Einstein, Statement 
of the mass-energy equivalence 
relationship. It can be found in 
Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers 
von Seinem Engegieghalt 
Abhangig? [1905]

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

December 14, 2018





ROLE  REVERSAL

Parents and children gradually switching  roles -
all so slowly - first childhood - second childhood -children becoming adults - adults becoming children - kids  learning words - adults forgetting names - diapers - Depends - learning to walk - learning how to use a walker - all right before our eyes. Parents and children - both denying these realities.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018


December 14, 2018 

Thought for today: 


“Important  principles may and must be inflexible.”  


Abraham Lincoln, 
Last public address,  
Washington D.D. [April 11, 1865]

December 13, 2018


MERRY  GO  ROUND

Looking back, I’ve never seen an
unhappy face on a merry-go-round.

Yet, so much of life is repeated
sounds, words, motions, illusions,
in and out of cars, the opening and
closing of doors and jars and boxes.

Looking back I’ve seen unhappy
faces in churches and on their jobs.

Maybe seeing life as a merry-go-round
might be a metaphor for having to do
life  - listening to the music, enjoying
life and seeing the circle of life together.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018










December 13, 2018 



Thought for today: 

“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, ‘Ours,’” 


Vine Deloria, Jr.