September   17,  2020

TOLLE   ET   LEGE!

TAKE AND  READ

Here’s a book.
Even though 1,000 people read it, 
the book remains the same,
but everyone who reads it,
and they change  slightly or significantly.

reads it differently

 
And here’s another point
to reflect  upon:
“Read the book with another
or with others as a group
and, 'Voila!' the book becomes
even more different –
than it is, that is if we listen
to each other."
 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections

September 17, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“You have your way. I have my way.   As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”  

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

September  16,  2020

AUTHOR!  AUTHOR!

 

The audience were excited.
 
They were to hear from 3 authors on
a Sunday – in a community college auditorium.
 
The first author – a 70 year old
woman – said it took her 40 years
to write her book – and even then -
she was filled with hesitations.
 
The second author – a younger
woman said it took her – 7 weeks –
to write her book – now a best seller.
 
The third author – a middle aged guy
in a flannel shirt – said it took him –
5 years to write his book.
 
They read excerpts from their book.
They did a Q. and A. on their book.
They signed copies of their book.
They told the audience what they had
in mind for their next book.
 
Then the audience went home – and
surprise most reread two of those books –
but now from a very different perspective.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

September 16, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 “If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead  it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.”

 

Gaelic proverb

September   15,  2020

CHOICE

 

If you were a brick,
and if you had a choice,
where would you like to end up?
 
Near the front door, as part of
the front steps, with a chance
to listen to folks each evening?
 
Up near the top where you could
see two different streets and the
harbor – seeing ships come and go?
 
As a paper weight of a musician
working on an opus – near an
open window – composing greatness?
 
What about being part of a prison,
a hospital, a nursing home, a day care
center, a stadium or a church?
 
If you were a brick,
would you ask, “Can I’ll tell you
where I don’t want to be?”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 202

 September   15,  2020

Thought for Today

 

“Nothing you write,  if you hope to be any good,  will ever  come out as you first hoped.”

 

Lillian Hellman

September 14,  2020  

 

PRODIGAL  SON

 
There are moments and
there are moments ….
 
There are memories and
there are memories ….
 
Some moments become
memories we can’t forget ….
 
The son messed up.
All he remembered was the embrace.
 
The father waited.
All he remembered was the “Thank you.”
 
The older brother missed the celebration.
All he remembered was the refusal.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020