July  1,  2021

PERHAPS,  PERHAPS,  PERHAPS

Life - perhaps 56 % of it is, "Perhaps!"
Or "Maybe".
Or "You never know."
Or "I'll let you know."
Or "I need some time to think about this."
Life? Is it a dance?
Life? Or am I in a trance?

Sometimes .... Most of the time ....
Perhaps .... Perhaps .... Perhaps....

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

July  1,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“We are what we remember of ourselves.”

 

Michael Anderson,

 

 

Michael Anderson, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge who studies memory.  How you will remember your life as an 80-year-old will depend on the ways you hold on to, or let go of, memories.  Your brain is always in the process of forgetting,  but Anderson believes you can forget with more intentionality – what he calls motivated forgetting – and that you can get better at it with practice.  ‘You sculpt your memories,’ he says.” page 17 in an article by Malia Wollan, “How to Forget Something,” in the New York Times Magazine, for May 9, 2021

June 30, 2021

 

MOVING  BEYOND  SCROUNGE

 

 

If our life gets into the fast lane and

and if it stays there – we might find

ourselves scrounging for time, for sleep,

for eating, for conversations with each

other – and for some – time for God.

 

A flat tire, a traffic jam, someone

avoiding us – because we are by

passing them over and over again

can wake us up. We have to read to

the signs of the time: STOP, YIELD ....

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

June  30,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”

   

                                                                                              Friedrich Nietzsche

June 29, 2021

 COMING  HOME

Coming up the street,
coming home,
after a long day,
after a wrong day,
not every day –
but today – yes ....
"No, everything
went wrong, nothing
went right." I was cut
by a nasty comment,
not recognized,
not listened to,
not acknowledged,
just ignored once more,
once again. ,

needing a hug, a hello,
a "Welcome home!"
[Silence!]
"Thank you!"
“Now, just sit down for 15 minutes.”
“Hi Dad!”
“I had a bad day at school today.”
“Come here and tell me about it.”
[Voice from the kitchen:] 
“Supper will be ready in 20 minutes.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

June  29,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

 

Annie Dilliard

June  28, 2021

I  WISH

 
I wish and wish and wish ….
I want and want and want ….
But
without working on my wishes,
without working to get at my wantings ….
And then
I overdose on inner denyings ….
and weeks and months and years
flow under the bridge and down the river.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021