August 25, 2019

BEFORE  AND  AFTERWARDS

Sometimes because of before

and afterwards,  we can miss

what happened in the in between.

Anticipation and  failed expectations

can do that every time.  Regrets

and hopes can ruin reality. Sorry.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August 24, 2019

Thought for today: 

“Don Marquis, a humorist playwright and columnist who die in 1957, said, ‘I get up in the morning with an idea for a three volume novel and by nightfall it’s a paragraph in my column.’”

UNDERSTANDING

Understanding is a work in progress.

In other words, one needs to take a

lot of time to understand - sometimes

to understand just one other person -

like in marriage. It takes time. It takes

making time for finding out how the

other person thinks, remembers,

saying things like, “I was thinking

about something you said the other

day. Do I have it right when you

said….” It takes great questions:

“What’s it like to have a baby?”

“What’s it like to feel you're in prison?”

“What’s it like to feel misunderstood?”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August 23, 2019

TONGUES  ARE  US

Every morning, after brushing our teeth,

it would be wise to look in the mirror,

stick out our tongue and say a prayer

that we use our tongue well, today -

that we don’t hurt anyone with a tough

word - that we praise and affirm at

least one person today -  and then that

night to look in the mirror - look at our

tongue - and talk to each other how we

worked together - and then thank God

if together we made a better world today.

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August  23, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“One  picture is worth  a  thousand diets.” 

Charisse Goodman

August  22.,  2019

SOME  PARTICULARS

Sometimes some poems make 
some particulars seem so particular: 
like poinsettias in a poem by John Shea;
like The Fish  in a poem by Elizabeth Bishop;
like trampolines in a poem by Denise Levertov;
like “The Red Wheelbarrow” or the plums 
that were in the ice box that were so delicious
in a poem by William Carlos Williams; 
and then you walk into the kitchen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019
That's William Carlos Williams
reciting his poem, "This is Just to Say ...."

August  22, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“A good scare is worth more than good advice.”  

Proverb