November 3, 2021

HAMMER  AND  A  NAIL

 

The nail screams on top
and on bottom – as it’s
going into the wood and
when the hammer smashes
into the top of the head of
the nail. “That hurts” – but
those two hurts are just for
just  short three seconds.
What it hasn’t thought about
is what actually happens at
that moment: being nailed
down into that wall or roof
for the next thirty years.
Enough’s enough if you
want to get out of the box
and spend the rest of
your life just being a nail.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

November       3,  2021 

 Thought for the Day

 “I would never read a book if it were possible to talk for an hour with the man who wrote it.”

 

President Woodrow Wilson

in a speech to students at

Princeton University 1910

November       2,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“After the first death there is no other.”

 

Dylan Thomas,

A Refusal to Mourne

The Death of a Child, 1946

November 2, 2021

 

TODAY

A MORNING PRAYER

 

Today, it might be a nothing day,
but for someone on your street,
this day might be the anniversary
of a hard day, a hurt, a death, a split,
so pause when you say “hello” to
the next person, say it oh so sweetly.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

November       1,  2021

 

 

Thought for the Day

 

"Few persons who ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the  process is going on."

Anthony Powell,

quoted in Observer, 

Jan 9, 1983

November 1,  2021

PERSONS, PERSONS, PERSONS … 

 

March,  march,  march …
Precision, precision, precision …
Persons, persons, persons …
Same, same, same …
Step, step, step …
Minds, minds, minds ….
Eyes, eyes, eyes …
Arms, arms, arms …
Legs, legs, legs …
Continue, continue, continue …
Now, now, now …
Why, why, why ….

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 October  31, 2021

GOD  KNOWS US

 

God knows me – notice
I didn’t say me alone.
 
God knows my thoughts
and my doings and my day.
 
If  it must disappoint God
when I do a dull day.
 
Imagine being boring to God?
Imagine having nothing interesting  to say?
 
Imagine having nothing to thank God
for at the end of a day like today?

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021