June 23, 2019

Thought for today: 

“I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do, but I don’t know where to begin.” 

Stephen Bayne - on becoming 

first executive of the Anglican Communion, 

Time, January 25. 1960

June 22, 2019

DEAD  BUG

I saw a dead bug

on a window sill.

It bothered me

more than a dead bug

caught in  a spider’s web

or one that hit my windshield.

I wondered, “Why?”

Maybe because

I didn’t know how

or when it died -

but those other two

deaths made more sense.

Is that the way it is

with death? Old age,

cancer, tough but

they make sense.

But to die alone like

a fly on a window sill?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June 22, 2019

Thought for today:

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe  photographs.”  

Ansel Adams

June 21, 2019

AT  EVERY  SABBATH

At every Sunday service,

at every Sunday Mass,

every person present

is either

one of two persons:

the one who sits 

and watches and judges others,

or the one who sits in the back

with and needing God.

Each of us is 

either the Pharisee 

or the Tax Collector?

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

Cf.  Luke 18: 9-14

June 21, 2019

Thought for today: 

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells  you  the less you know.”  

Diane Arbus

June 20, 2019

WHY  NOT?

For every act of selfishness,

anger, hostility, the finger,

not holding the door or a

space or place for another,

why not show some love,

an act of kindness, a smile,

a song,  a gathering with

others and to enjoy this

great gift of life. Amen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June 20, 2019

Thought for today: 

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see  without a camera.” 

Dorothea Lange