May 11, 2020

F.  A.  Q.

Does everyone have a favorite question?

Yes or no?

What’s yours?

Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

How come?

Who are you?

How much does it cost?

What do you do for a living?

Do you hurt?

Are you crazy?

Whatcha doing?

What time is it?

What are you thinking about – like right now?

What are you reading lately?

How good are you at listening on a scale of 1 to 10?

What’s the best thing you have ever done?

Do you volunteer?

What was your best moment so far in life?

Do you believe in God?

How much time do you have?

Is God asking you any questions?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

May  11, 2020

Thought   for  Today

Meryl Streep said, “My son is a musician.  When he was 21 and we were in the middle  of Thanksgiving dinner – 16  people sitting  around the table – he said, ‘You know the greatest regret of my life?’   

"And I thought, ‘Oh God, it’s when I didn’t go to his school play or when I fell short in some way.’ 

"And he said, ‘That you never gave me music lessons.’ 

"And I said, ‘I gave  you piano lessons. You had piano lessons for two years!’  

"He had forgotten.

“Michelle said, ‘He just thought he was a musical genius.’”

Meryl Streep said, “He thought that he picked up a guitar at 15 and learned      everything himself -  which he did.   But he had forgotten about the music he learned – but at the time he just wanted to play baseball. I made him play the piano.”

  Meryl Streep

May 10, 2020

MOTHER’S  DAY

It’s Mother’s Day. 

My mom is long gone – 

April 7, 1987 – killed in

a hit and run accident – age 82 -

while walking to church –

6^th Ave and 59^th -  Brooklyn N.Y.

It’s Mother’s Day.

I have this sweet memory –

from around 8 years old of age -

handing my mom - a MOM coffee cup -
which I bought for 10 cents at Kresge's.
No -  I didn’t accidentally fall and break it.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

May  10,  2020

Thought  for  Mother's  Day 

 “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. / You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. / A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”  

Sophia Loren

INTERESTING  JOBS

Toll collector on a bridge 

at midnight during the 

Coronavirus 19 pandemic. 

Banana seller or a 

Mercedes car dealer. 

in a Banana Republic. 

Being a priest 

when all the churches 

are closed. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

May   9,  2020

Thought  for  Today 

Liverpool: “The god-forsaken city,  with a  climate  so evil that no self-respecting singer would ever set foot in it!   It is a catarrhal place that has been the cause through the centuries of the nasal  Liverpool accent.”  

Sir Thomas Beecham, 

Quoted by Harold Atkins and Archie Newman,  

Beecham Stories.  Isn’t Liverpool the place 

where the Beatles began in 1960 – 
so did Sir Thomas 

say this before or after them?  
Thomas Beecham  [1879-1961]

also said, “Composers should write tunes that 

chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.” 

DUCT  TAPE  MOOD

The mood was silver grey – 

grey clouds on a rainy day - 

like unwanted dimes and nickels 

in a dish – on my bureau - like 

duct tape holding together the 

vinyl on an old family foot stool. 

I’m feeling lazy and ordinary. 

This coronavirus is depressing. 

It’s seeping into the seams 

of my life – making me feel like 

I can’t keep myself all together. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020