July  5,  2021

IN  MY  POCKET

  
What’s the one thing I find
in my pocket the most?
 
Paper.
 
Obviously - it’s paper of course.
 
Names of people. Phone numbers.
Addresses. Names of books. The
first three lines of the first draft of a poem.
 
Tissues. Questions. Reminders.
Calling cards. Okay, I’m stuck in the past.
In your pocket, you have only your iPhone.
 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July  5,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

 

Plato

 July  4,  2021

NEVER  SAW  THAT  BEFORE

 

If we walk the planet, we’ll see,
lots of things we never saw before.
 
Religions, ceremonies, dances,
games, foods, costumes, customs.
 
Interesting, amazing, surprising,
eye-opening, wondering, intriguing….
 
How do I react? What am I thinking?
Positive or negative? Questions or answers?
 
I guess I need to pause and look at my life.
I guess I need to wonder, “How do people see me?

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July  4,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“At last the notes of his flute come in, and I cannot stop him from dancing around on the floor.”

 

The Kabir Book,

translated by

Robert Bly

July  3,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”

 

Indian Proverb

 July 3,  2021

 GRACE AND GREASE

 

One way to put it -  is simply - to say:
“We’re called to make life easier
and a blessing for each other each day.”
 
Grease it up!  Help people to make it
through the crowd – on the street – in
train stations – in the dance of life.

The teenage years can be tough. How about
when someone loses:  a job – or a kid –
or a spouse in divorce or death.
 
Ever been to a nursing home? Those bodies
need grease – peace – comfort – exercise -
laughter – recognition – and acknowledgement
 
Life …. Take the right train. Dance …. Sing ….
Remember what Jesus said, “Don’t forget
what it’s like to be a kid again. Be one!”
 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 July 2,  2021

RIVERS 

 

Stop - whenever you see a river.
 
Just close your eyes –
and hear its swagger, 
it's swirls and its roll.
 
Just open up your eyes
and see its flow.
 
America has them – rivers.
 
The mighty Mississippi -
the deep Hudson –
the searching Shenandoah,
the St. Lawrence and the Rio Grande,
the Colorado and the Columbia.
 
Go to Pittsburgh and see the Alleghany
and the Monongahela flowing till they 
become the Ohio with its coal boats.
 
Rivers!
 
And this is just one country with all its rivers
and they are just one of the Creator's great
imaginations – rivers -  Holy Water – Sacred flow.

 
There's more! Keep moving! Keep living.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020