September  14, 2021

Reflection 

 September   14,  2021

Thought for the Day

“If is an interesting fact that all of us have in our veins the same exact percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.   We are tied to the ocean.  And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back whence we came.”

 

John F. Kennedy,

Newport R.I. Speech,

September 14, 1962

September 13, 2021

 

PERHAPS

  
It’s smart to throw in a “perhaps” –
when trying to figure out just what
was going on when it happened.
 
Perhaps it was the last thing anyone
thought might happen or the last thing
anyone knew was really going on.
 
Perhaps if someone asked for a little
more time – or someone asked a
different question – then maybe – different.
 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

September  13,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“There is but one thing more dangerous than sin – the murder of a man’s sense of sin.”

 

Pope John Paul II,

Quoted in the Observer,

April 8, 1979

September 12, 2021

 

SNEAK  OF  LIGHT

 
Insight sometimes seems
to come like a turning on of
a light at 2:45 in the morning –
suddenly – snap – switch –
but on looking back, it might
be  the result of a hurt -
or personal stupidity or
laziness – too many things
not working – and something
new is needed and then the
sneak of light – then INSIGHT.

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

September   12,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Sin cannot be undone, only forgiven.”

 

Igor Stravinsky, 

Conversations With

Stravinsky, 1959

September 11,  2021

 

BAD  TUESDAY

 

Great big blue skies -
like today, September 11, 2021,
twenty years after the horror –
after the losses of so many that day –
husbands, wives, children, parents,
pilots, air line attendants,
fire fighters, friends, a cousin, a
neighbor, a priest, a stranger.
 
Like Bad Friday – becoming
Good Friday – it takes love and
time and a change in thinking
for a Bad Tuesday to become
a Good Tuesday – Bursting
Twin Towers becoming like
a new type of crucifix in a dark
sky - with new knowings.

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021