May 1. 2020
Thought for Today
“People should tell your children what life is all about—it’s about work.”
Lauren Bacall
Friday, May 1, 2020
Thursday, April 30, 2020
April 30, 2020
Does everyone have one:
A CRI DE COEUR
Does everyone have one:
at least one cri de coeur?
I tried to tell you what I was feeling
but you would not listen.
Maybe you were also crying.
Daddy wouldn’t ….
Mommy was always
somewhere else
as she sat there while he yelled.
I wanted peace in the family,
but nobody else said anything.
I could have been a poster child
for “The Scream!”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
April 30, 2020
Thought for Today
“Next time you feel a bit under the weather, give the pills and potions a miss and try reading – or writing – some poetry. That is the advice of doctors who are taking part in a Bristol University study which shows that sometimes a few lines of Wordsworth, Keats or Browning can overcome a patient’s need for minor tranquillisers."
Paul Stokes,
The Daily Telegraph,
February 15, 1994
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
April 29, 2020
I know there are outer ones: “Oooh!”;
IRREGULAR
INNER SOUNDS
Is there a box on a top shelf in an
inner closet
that contains a raw
collection of our unique inner sounds?
I know there are outer ones: “Oooh!”;
“Hmm!”; “Ouch!”; “No, no, no!”; “Ugh!”;
“Bummer!”; “Crud!”; “Crap!”; “Christ!”
I went through that box the other night.
Sure enough, there are even some prayers
in there. I guess
Christ is everywhere.
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2020
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
April 28, 2020
MAIL
A surprise letter
since it wasn’t Christmas:
“Tom passed away March 13th.
Please pray for him.”
It happens from time to time.
Another widow.
Another winter is coming
in the middle of the summer.
There is a lot of this happening
lately. Lord, it looks like
we need each other.
we need each other.
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2020
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