January 23, 2023

WHAT  WOULD  IT  TAKE?

 

What would it take to get a standing ovation?

What would it be like to get one – a “Yes!” vote?

Do we all have a gift – a talent – an ability

that could take the house down or do we

have to practice, practice, practice?

Does every person we go by, sit next to

on the train or plane deserve recognition

for their contributions to life on this planet?

People claim to be pro life – yet they yawn,

not listen, and pick up the paper when another

walks onto the stage called “Life!” No! No! No!

Don’t fail to clap for the other. Yes! Yes! Yes!

 

 © Reflections, Andy  Costello

January 23, 2023

Quote for Today

"I want to go on living even after death!"

Anne Frank [1929-1945]

Diary April 4, 1944 

 January 22, 2023

REGRETS

 

Regrets – they can be silent

and sneaky – sticking to our

inner skin – making their

appearance on rainy days –

like a bill we didn’t pay –

like meeting someone who

looks like someone who

hurt us back then - back when

things just weren’t going right

for  us. Can we flush them?

Can we forget them by moving

or just becoming better with age –

but as I said they can reappear –

unwanted, ugly and unannounced?

Regrets .... Regrets .... Regrets ....

Not so easy …. Not so easy.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections

REGRETS

They

 January 22, 2023

Quote for Today'

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns, at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement."

Ben  Franklin, 1706-1789]

Poor Richard's Almanac [1758] June

 January 21,   2023

 ELSEWHERE

 

Long before cellphones, people spent

their days in inner conversations with

the other – the key person in their life –

especially when the person is elsewhere.

 

Time there is where and when we are

talking to the important people in our lives –

talking, thinking, being in the heart of

another – but often – we too are elsewhere.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 January 21, 2023

Quote for Today

"Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity. I realize that patriotism is not enough.  I must have no hatred  or bitterness towards anyone."

Edith  Cavell [1865-1915]

English nurse, executed by

the  Germans for assisting 

in to escape of British soldiers

from occupied Belgium.

[The Times October 23, 1915

 January 20, 2023

LAKE TAKANASSEE

 

A mile all around which I walked

1,000 times – not round – not oval –

lake sized – here in West End, N.J. -

with a dozen brand new benches –

on its edge – put there in 2022.

A place to walk – a place to sit –

a place to watch the birds taking off

and landing – on the water - an airport – 

a place to walk every morning or afternoon

or run in the spring, summer, fall evenings.

How long did it take folks to figure out

it was as good a place to be at as

the Atlantic Ocean just a hall mile away?

How many more places around here are

just waiting for me to walk to – to discover?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello