July 13,  2021 

Thought for the Day

 

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” 

Gary Player [Golfer]

 July  12, 2021

BREATHE

 
Catch your breath. Breathe.
Be caught in a pause. Breathe.
Calm down for a few moments.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Catch your breath. Breathe.
Release your breath.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Thank God. You’re alive.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 July  12,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

 “The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.”

 

A.P. Herbert (1890-1971)

July  11,  2021

 Thought for the Day

 

“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”  

 

Fran Lebowitz

 July  11,  2021

LISTENING  AND  WONDERING  

Listening is hard work.
It involves watching –
– and wondering.
 
It involves questions –
lots of questions – some spoken -
trying to untie the knots.
 
It involves saying,
“I really don’t know
what’s going on here.
 
It means backtracking and getting
to the back stories and asking,
“How long has this been going on?”
 
Then there is time – the long
waiting to find out how close
have I come to reality?
 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 July 10,  2021

          INTENTION 

We get angry at times –
usually at someone 

not something -
judging another –
thinking we know their intention -
thinking our perception
of another is another –
if we only paused –
if we really knew why another
is another – so, so different
from whom we think they really are.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July  10,  2021

Thought for the Day 

“In big cities, beneath the roar of traffic, beneath ‘the rapid pace of change,’ so many faces pass by unnoticed because they have no ‘right’ to be there, no right to be part of the city.  They are the foreigners, the children who go without schooling, those deprived of medical insurance, the homeless, the forgotten elderly.  These people stand at the edges of our great avenues, in our streets, in deafening anonymity. They become part of an urban landscape that is more and more taken for granted, in our eyes, and especially in our hearts.”

 Pope Francis,

Homily, September

25, 2015