May 6, 2023
Quote for Today
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."
Mario Cuomo
New Republic,
Washington DC,
April 8, 1985
Monday, May 8, 2023
May 5, 2023
JUSTIFICATION
I’ve heard
about “justification”
when it
comes to religion and God.
Now that I’m
in my 80’s, I realize
how nuts
that is – in fact, crazy.
How can we know
God’s mind and
thoughts on each
human being.
Each human
being has to get to
know God to
get that. When?
In the meanwhile
we play God and
try to
justify ourselves to ourselves
and to others
every day. We do ….
© Reflections, Andy Costello
May 4, 2023
ALL IS HOLY
All is holy –
sacred – a sacrament.
The little
kid draws the picture of a cow.
He saw her
out the bus window on the way
home from
school. That picture was on the
refrigerator
door for at least a year – sacred.
So too mom’s
hair brush which her daughter
wanted after
mom died 11 years ago. She
had taken
care of mom and her hair the
last year of
her life. So too dad’s shoe horn
and the
hundreds of things in the museum
called “our
home.” All is holy. All is sacred,
but you have
to ask, “What’s this?”
and, “What’s
the story? And I notice
the brush
has some gray hair in it?”
© Reflections, Andy Costello
May 3, 2023
LIMITS
Things have
edges. They do.
Go too far
and you can fall off.
We have to accept limits.
Difficult at
times – but we
can figure
this out from oneself.
Sleep is a
good place to start - then
work – then
walking – then talking –
then being
with each other – knowing
the other
has limits – but especially
they have
gifts which make up
for my
limits and for what’s missing
on the other
side of my limits.
© Reflections, Andy Costello
May 2, 2023
PAGE 263
Any book with a lot of pages
Has a page 263.
Check it out.
Was it carved out? Was it rushed?
Or was it like ten thousand conversations?
I’ve had – forever lost
in the wind –
of words. Oops! I still have it.
It’s written down. It’s in a book.
Check out – look at page 263.
© Reflections, Andy Costello
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