August  12,  2020

Thought   for   Today

"It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer."

Martha Ostenso [1900-1963]

Norwegian-American Novelist

August  11,   2020

8  MORE  BEATITUDES

Blessed are our plastic pill boxes

because they tell us what day it is.

Blessed are the words on our T-shirts because

they get us talking to one another.

Blessed are our young people  because

they remind us that there is a future to work for.

Blessed are the old timers because they tell us

we have a past with its stories and its learnings.

Blessed are our wheels because they make

it easier to get us to where we’re going.

Blessed are cats and dogs because they tell us

“Feed us”  along with all of creation.

Blessed are our sins and mistakes  because they

can teach and  bring us to humility and understanding.

Blessed are the weather reports because they give us

something else to talk about besides those we don’t like.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

August  11, 2020

Thought   for   Today

"Religion is passionate,  reckless,  destructive,  idol-smashing.  It's a  martyr burning at the stake.  It's a crown of thorns and a  cross."

Martha Ostenso [1900-1963]

Norwegian-American Novelist

August 10, 2020

GETTING TO SCHOOL

Getting to school,

getting an education,

can be the one thing

most of us can have

in common: whether

it’s by yellow bus,

by foot, by zoom,

giving us stories

for the rest of our lives.

Getting an education,

how to do math,

how to dream,

how to know the rest

of the planet, how

to hope – as we hope

you’ll be the one, the

many who will make life

better for the rest of us.

                                                                                             © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

P.S. Can't get out of the house to get  to school - because of the Corona Virus - check out these documentaries. Here are 5 more 48 minute documentaries - which are great for comments and getting beyond ourselves. 

August  10,  2020

Thought  for  Today

“It  was  a  good  time 

It  was  the  best  time.

It  was  a  party 

Just  to  be  near  you. 

It  was  a  good  time 

It  was  the  best  time 

And  we  believed 

That  it  would  last  forever.’

Maurice Jaffe

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