August  9,  2020

CONNECTIONS

Tell me whom you’re talking to

at various times – inside your mind –

those people who left you with

questions – those people whom

you’re trying to figure out their

motives and ways of doing life?

We all have people who might

have dismissed or avoided us

and  we still have not forgiven 

them – or those people who 

helped us in life and we still 

have not said, “Thank you” to?  

Then there are the folks we’ve 

found interesting – but we really 

never connected with them.  

So I’m talking here about our 

inside conversations – which I

consider the real conversations.

Okay, outside connections and

conversations are also tricky –

but not like these inner ones.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

Painting, Verandah by

Alex Colville

August   9,   2020

Thought for  Today

“Edith  was  a  little country bounded on the north, south, east and west by Edith.”

Martha Ostenso, [1900-1963]

Norwegian-American Novelist

August 8, 2020

JUST  LIKE  GOD

Who me? Like God?  How so?

Woooooooh! That’s a big one.

I hope it’s when I love.

I hope too, it’s when I create.

Not when I hate, I assume.

Not when I fake it.

Not when I have no clue.

I would think, it’s when

I'm really aware of others.

It's when I'm really human.

You're kidding?

Christ, no!  Christ, yes!

It's when I get crucified

for what is right. Woooooh!

It's when I rise. Wow.

And it's especially when I’m outside

of time: past, present and to come.

In fact, it’s right now. Hi God!

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

August 8, 2020

Thought  for  Today  

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.” 

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900

August 7, 2020

A  SONG  REMEMBERED

Does everyone have a song –

a song remembered – played

in the back of their brain – in

the shower – in a storm – in pain –

that gets them to the other side

of a ache – or  the echo of a joy?

Ooops! There’s the genesis of

a new song: “The Echo or the

Ache”  - life in the inside of

everyone – in the need of song.

What's your song - like the one

at the beginning of a wedding?

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

August   7,   2020

Thought  for  Today

“Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.”

Austin O’Malley

August  6,  2020

TRANSFIGURATION

Go figure.
You want me to be different
than I am -  but you don't really
know who I am -  so tell me who
you want me to be - or as I suspect:
as you would want me to be.

Go figure.
That's what I did and that's how
I figured out what you really want
of me. Come up with a proposal.
Present me with a before and after
description and I might say, "I'm trying."

© Andy Costello, Reflections,  2020