Sunday, October 18, 2020

 October  15,  2020


Thought for Today

 

“Words can destroy.  What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.” 

 

Jean Kirkpatrick, 1982, Speech


 October  14, 2020




             LONELINESS

 

 Loneliness, it hides in back seats
of buses – or in school yards when
someone makes fun of us for acne
or being fat.  It has friends – but
they are  not people but feelings –
feelings of jealousy – or dismissal –
or nobody is really listening to us.
Loneliness – the cure is eye and
ear contact with another – who is
on the same dark bus with us
as we travel through the night.

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020


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)