October 13, 2020

 

MISTAKES

The mistake is not to accept - there are mistakes.

The mistake is not to learn from mistakes.

The mistake is not to grow in understanding.

The mistake is not to become patient with each other.

The mistake is not to realize trees are crooked.

The mistake is to accept that sidewalks crack.

The mistake is to know that cars get dents.

The mistake is to learn to laugh at oneself.

The mistake is to not accept leakage and crooked legs and arthritic hands.

The mistake is to forget to say, “Sorry. Next time I’ll try to give you a better me and mean it."

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 October  14, 2020

Thought for Today

 

“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.”

 

Jessamyn  West,

The Life I really Lived,

1979

 

October 12, 2020

 

NOW THAT’S A  GOOD  QUESTION

 

Question:  “How do I know when I’m praying?”

 
It’s when we don’t ask that question.
It’s when there is only one present –
and it’s both God and you.  What?
 
I repeat: It’s when you don’t ask 

that question. It's when your two 

hands are one and you don't know

which hand is which: right or left?

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

October 13,  2020

Thought for Today

 

 “There are words worse than curse words, there are words that hurt.”

 

Tillie Olsen,

Hey Sailor,

What Ship?

October 12, 2020

 Thought for Today

 

“A word is dead when it is said, some say.  I say it just begins to live that day.”  

Emily Dickinson 1872 

in Mabel Loomis Todd, ed. 

Letters to Emily Dickinson, Vol. 2 (1894)

 October  11,  2020

THE  QUARTER

 

The grandmother gave
the little boy a quarter.
 
“But aren’t you scared
he might swallow it?”
 
“No. I’ll teach him it’s
neither candy nor food.”
 
And she did. And he
didn’t eat it. He kept it.
 
She asked to see it
every time she saw him.
 
She would hug it, wash it,
shine it, kiss it and give it back.
 
He kept it in his wallet all his life, and
showed it when he gave her eulogy.
 
Then he gave it to his first granddaughter
and continued the same ritual with her.
 
She kept the tradition going, giving the
1932 silver quarter to her first grandson.
 
So far that quarter is in his wallet and
he plans on giving  it to his first grandchild.
 
So far - so good - this way – we pass
good stuff down to the next generation.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

October  11, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

  

Pablo Picasso