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

February 20, 2019

THE  POWER OF WORDS

“Yes” ….

“No” ….

“I’m sorry” ….

“Help!” ….

“Will you marry me?” ….

“I don’t know” ….

“”Give me three more days?” ….

“Translation?” ….

“I love you!” ….

“I want out!” ….

“Oh my God!” ….

“You win!” ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

February   20, 2019 

Black History Month Thought for Today:  

“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can  psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.”   

 Octavia E. Butler

February 19, 2019

ZIGZAG

Life is zigzag.

We all know that.

We don’t want it that way,

but that’s the way it goes.

We want straight, clean cut,

lines - no veering off course.

We say things like that when

there is a rejection, a divorce,

bad weather, or the crazies.

We forget to marvel when the

zigzag has scenic overviews,

surprising people and the brand new -
especially moments of grace.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

 February   19, 2019 

Black History Month Thought for Today: 

“As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.”   

Gweldolyn Brooks

EULOGY

If I could write my own eulogy,
what would I write? 

If I was sitting there hearing my eulogy,
what would the eulogist say?

If I was hearing my eulogy would I say
the old jokes? You're talking about someone else.

If I was hearing my own eulogy, 
what would I hope is not said?

Is the eulogy and the words at the wake,
the real final judgment?

If God gave my eulogy,
what would God say? 

Is there a final judgment?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

February   18, 2019 

Black History Month Thought for Today:  

"Poetry is life distilled.”  

Gweldolyn Brooks