February   24, 2019

Black History Month Thought for Today:  

“I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl  has  felt)  a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.” 

Anna Julia Cooper [1858-1964], Ph.D.

February 23, 2019

HOME  IMPROVEMENT

Sometimes I don’t get out of bed, well

not yet, because I figured out a different 

way to do living: asking new questions, 

and seeing things on the other side of the 

bed - from the other side of the other person.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

February   23, 2019 

Black History Month Thought for Today:  

“Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.” 

Anna Julia Cooper  [1858-1964], Ph.D.

February 22, 2019

WAITING

Life has a lot of waiting ….

The red light to turn green ….

The mail truck to come up the street ….

The waitress to come back with ….

The bathroom door to open ….

The 24 year old to move out ….

The sermon to make a point ….

Spring …. Summer …. Autumn …

Winter … Spring to arrive again ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

February   22, 2019 

Black History Month Thought for Today: 

“One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.”   

Anna Julia Cooper [1858-1964], Ph.D.

February 21, 2019

HINGE

He didn’t like his job -

compared to his brother,

back home in another place ….

He …. Changing light bulbs,

cleaning toilets,

mopping marble

floors after midnight ….

Then one night

all alone  as he

was polishing a metal hinge -

he realized this was good:

his four kids were in good schools;

his wife greeted him with a rich smile

and a great hello when he got home

at 4 in the morning; and he was a

bronze shining hinge between

two cultures, countries, languages,

even though some wanted a wall

instead of a door.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

February   21, 2019 

Black History Month Thought for Today:  ”Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”  

Octavia E. Butler