Sunday, May 19, 2019

May  31, 2019


HANDS  REACHING  OUT  

I see hands reaching out ….
The old man for the nurse ….
The child from her carriage ….
The husband for his wife
as they walk into church
for a friend’s funeral ….
Couples hearing the song
Sweet Caroline at the
ball game: “hands, touching
hands, reaching out,
touching me, touching you ….”
  
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019



May    31, 2019

Thought for today: 

“I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.”  

Ronald Reagan, 
as presidential candidate, 
quoted in the New York Times
Sept 22, 1980


May 30, 2019


MOMENTS

Pick another moment,
there are many, when
you’re having a bad one.

Pick the moment you
came down the aisle
for marriage or graduation.

Pick the moment you won
a spelling bee - or you made
your first chocolate layer cake.

Pick the day you got off a joke
that got a great laugh and you
were also surprised - so clever.

Pick the surprises - the sunrises -
not the storms or the sins or
the dumb moves or the hurts.

Pick the Easter Sunday mornings -
pick the Christmas Midnight Masses -
pick the moments God sang Halleluja.



© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

May    30, 2019


Thought for today: 

“I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.” 


Doctor Albert Schweitzer, 
Recalled on his death, 
September 4, 1965


May 29, 2019

ECHOES


A piano going “Blink, blink, blink” -
a cold silver butter knife like
blinking sound going  through  
open autumn afternoon windows ….
A bowling ball rolling down
a well waked wooden floor, but it
only hits 9 pins - leaving one standing ….
A car horn beeps, “Beep! Beep! Beep!”
It’s from the  angry driver
in the car right behind my car ….
I’m too slow for her - I guess ….
As I’m aging I’m hearing
more and more echoes of
anger and anxiety ….
I guess I’m getting too slow
for too, too many people.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

May    29, 2019 -


Thought for today:  


“You know more than you think you do.”  


Doctor Benjamin Spock, 
First sentence of Baby and Child Care, 
Quoted in Ladies Home Journal, March 1960


May 28, 2019

SAME SEAT, DIFFERENT TIMES

Park benches, porch swings,
couches, waiting room chairs,
seats on buses, trains, planes,
10,000 people have sat in
these same seats - without
taking the time to sit back
and talk about what we have in common.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019