Sunday, July 12, 2020


July 12, 2020



Moon:  Thought   for  Today

“Before going to the moon, how about visiting your neighbor next door?”

  Someone

Saturday, July 11, 2020

July 11, 2020




ICE  CUBES

I heard this of snow flakes,
but how about ice cubes?

Are any two of them alike?

Holding drink in hand you said
there  are better questions to puzzle.

Quick!  We’re melting.

Ooops!  I never did get a chance
to tell you, I was once an iceberg.



© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020


July  11, 2020

Ego!  Thought  for  Today 




“The great enemy of art is the ego.  It keeps getting in the way.  One needs the ego to disappear so that I become you. I become the people waking up and down the street.”  

Paul  Durkan, 
Oxford Poetry
Spring 1988

Friday, July 10, 2020


July 10, 2020

SILENT  HOME

It is a silent home. Some of
them are like that, Open any
drawer. Look under any bed.
Check every closet. Sit in any
soft,  stuffed, overweight chair.
You’ll hear silence everywhere.

So when grandkids show up,
the whole house celebrates.
It listens loudly to kids running 
up and down stairs  - playing,
laughing, screaming, pounding
on polished mahogany floors.

Wait. It’s for the moment - after
the kids leave - that the old house
waits for - when mom - who is
all alone, calls up her other
kids and tells them who was
just here and invites them and
their kids to come home too.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July  10,  2020



Thought  for  Today

 “I fish: therefore I  lie.”

Various  people 
Painting by 
Leonid Afremov 

Thursday, July 9, 2020





PANDEMIC   PRAYER


Lord, this virus is
too much and too long with us.

The only corona  - crown - it 
deserves is "crown of thorns"
and you know all about that.

We pray for an end to all of this.

In the meanwhile,  we pray
a prayer of thanks for those
caring for the sick up front –
as well as those back stage - 
for their feet, for their shoulders
for their whole being.

We pray for researchers –
searching for a vaccine –
and insights into the mysteries
of this devious demon of a virus.

We pray for and with the sick,
give them joy, faith and patience.

We pray for those who have died –
and their people unable to do all
the necessaries for mourning and memory.

And lastly, Lord, give us patience
with each other and with ourselves.
Remind us to be Gospel, Good News,
to each other today. Amen.



© Prayers, Andy Costello, CSSR
Picture found on line -
listed Arlington Catholic Herald

July 9, 2020


SOUNDS

I know phones, piano
binks and bursts, and
barks of dogs and trains
in the distance,  but I
wish I could hear, “Sorry,
I forgot it was your life.
I was next to and I
missed most of it.”

Yet, I need to hear my
own soul saying, “I under-
stand.  We’re not God.
Get that. Grasp that. 
And if and when I do 
that, there is a chance 
for peace and the sound 
of the down deep, “Aha! God!"


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Painting by  Gary Bunt