February 14, 2021
Thought
for the Day
“Celibacy
goes deeper than the flesh.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Saturday, February 13, 2021
February 13, 2021
A JOB
Every kid needs to get that first job –
then the second and third and so forth –
making pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters –
learning how to be and how to deal with others –
delivering papers, washing dishes, waiting
on tables, cutting grass - doing this and that.
Like learning how to sing - how to play
the guitar, violin, drums or piano. You
have to find your skills, your interests,
your song, but above all - you have to
practice practice, practice if you want as
they say to find your way to Carnegie Hall.
Like learning how to box, how to fight,
getting in the ring – lasting ten rounds –
learning to get up when knocked down –
gaining skills, doing the footwork, dancing,
jumping rope, practice, practice, practice,
till I can hold my own with my own. Amen.
Friday, February 12, 2021
February 12, 2021
NO!
Your opinion?
Do kids learn to say, “NO!”
long before they learn to say, “Yes!”
They know what they want
and don’t want – when it comes
to food and awful smelling wash cloths.
They learn to hide and put off
what they don’t like or don’t want
to do with homework and home chores.
The enemy: parents, teachers,
bullies, older kids, older people
bark out orders and they resist.
Folded arms …. Passive aggression ….
Hiding …. or
learning to say, “NO!” –
that simple two letter tiny word.
Your opinion? Would this world be
a better place if we could all say,
“Yes” or “No” when want to say, “Yes” or “No”?
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
February 11, 2021
THERE IS A MOVIE
There is a movie being made,
a documentary, a drama,
a comedy, with tragedies,
stories, surprises, twists and turns.
a documentary, a drama,
a comedy, with tragedies,
stories, surprises, twists and turns.
It's me.
It's you.
It's all of us.
It's filled with lots and lots of people.
It’s being put together – cut and paste -
It’s being put together – cut and paste -
slowly - - -
being gathered from the scattered
scenes and stories of our lives.
We are figuring out our life....
We are figuring out our life....
Slowly.
It’s playing up there on a tiny screen
in the right hand corner of our mind.
It’s like a tiny TV in a diner. We watch it
It’s playing up there on a tiny screen
in the right hand corner of our mind.
It’s like a tiny TV in a diner. We watch it
while eating - especially when the others
go into the kitchen for a moment. We watch
it while waiting in a waiting room in a hospital.
We stop to watch in from time to time
in church or at the beach, or in bed at night.
Yes.
Yes we do.
- - - -
Years later
we see so much more when we re-visit the places
we’ve been to or when we look at pictures
we’ve been to or when we look at pictures
from way back when -
where we’ve been -
what we've done.
We do.
We are in the stories of our life
and the lives of so many people in our lives –
and on the planet. We have regrets
We are in the stories of our life
and the lives of so many people in our lives –
and on the planet. We have regrets
in the desk drawers of our lives.
Secrets....
Yes we have secrets
and sorrows....
We are holding "bags of sand and shells".
We are "injured sea gulls at times".
We are the people we go by every day.
We are the people we go by every day.
So it’s good to stop and look at.
It's good to put and pull together
the movie of our lives.
It is
and it's good to talk to each other.
It is.
It's good to show each other - each other.
It is.
It has been.
It is - - - - - good.
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