March 13, 2021
Thought
for the Day
“The
most exhausting thing in life is being
insincere.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Friday, March 12, 2021
March 12, 2021
WHERE I’M WALKING
Waxed wooden floors ….
Black macadam parking lots ….
Fluffy soft – as well as hard crew cut rugs ….
Tiles …. various colors, sizes and shapes ….
Crossing the street ….
My feet know the feel of where I walk.
My feet still remember the green grass
of my favorite park – Bliss Park –
Brooklyn, N.Y. - running down the
hill in March with my kite. Then there was
the time Tom and I were on
the Fishing Jimmy trail in New Hampshire –
with its nasty black flies, slippery planks
stretched across muddy and mucky waters.
Much easier were the 9 days we
were on the Long Trail in Vermont –
with its rocks, logs, mud, easier and less trickier.
But it rained every day – like it’s supposed to
but it was a nice summer rain -
easy on my feet – soft on my face.
Black macadam parking lots ….
Fluffy soft – as well as hard crew cut rugs ….
Tiles …. various colors, sizes and shapes ….
Crossing the street ….
My feet know the feel of where I walk.
My feet still remember the green grass
of my favorite park – Bliss Park –
Brooklyn, N.Y. - running down the
hill in March with my kite. Then there was
the time Tom and I were on
the Fishing Jimmy trail in New Hampshire –
with its nasty black flies, slippery planks
stretched across muddy and mucky waters.
Much easier were the 9 days we
were on the Long Trail in Vermont –
with its rocks, logs, mud, easier and less trickier.
But it rained every day – like it’s supposed to
but it was a nice summer rain -
easy on my feet – soft on my face.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
Thursday, March 11, 2021
March 11, 2021
SLOW DOWN
First lesson was: people read at different speeds.
Second lesson: there are no speed limit signs for reading.
First lesson: people speak at different speeds.
Next lesson: different situations dictate different speeds.
Next lesson: Put up STOP signs at times
and ask people to tell you what they are really saying.
Third lesson: maybe you’ll find out people
sometimes don’t know what they are really saying.
Fourth lesson: Ask whether people speed speak at us
so as to slide difficult comments past us.
First lesson: human beings are thinking in loud
to themselves all their life long - at different speeds.
Second lesson: jotting down in a journal
or on a computer what we're thinking
can really slow our thinking down.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
March 10, 2021
WHY’S I DON’T KNOW THE WHY OF
Read
enough history,
live enough life, and
you’ll come up with
a list of different “Why’s!”
Why won’t people
forgive each other,
when forgiveness is
in our own self-interest?
Why do people kill
each other in Holocausts
and on the dark nights
of our city streets?
Why do people bully
other people – not only
in school as kids, but in
nursing homes as adults?
Why don’t people celebrate
Sabbaths – when it’s there
for the taking and it’s free –
and it’s something we need.
Why don’t people acknowledge
God – when they see Jupiter
and the stars of night and they
are there beyond our reach?
Why are there answers
to our “Why Questions,”
but for some reason they
never seem to be accepted?
live enough life, and
you’ll come up with
a list of different “Why’s!”
Why won’t people
forgive each other,
when forgiveness is
in our own self-interest?
Why do people kill
each other in Holocausts
and on the dark nights
of our city streets?
Why do people bully
other people – not only
in school as kids, but in
nursing homes as adults?
Why don’t people celebrate
Sabbaths – when it’s there
for the taking and it’s free –
and it’s something we need.
Why don’t people acknowledge
God – when they see Jupiter
and the stars of night and they
are there beyond our reach?
Why are there answers
to our “Why Questions,”
but for some reason they
never seem to be accepted?
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
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