May 7, 2023
DUST
What was
it – this dust?
My newspaper
or my skin?
I had my
window open – so
maybe it
snook into my house
that way.
I don’t know.
It’s a good
reminder
we’re all
coming or going.
Dust: the
great realizer.
We might not be a chip
off the old block – yet
we’re all
connected to this
great big
wonderful world.
© Reflections, Andy Costello
May 6, 2023
ADVERTISEMENT
The ad is
not the hamburger.
It’s not. It
triggers taste.
But you have
to take out
your wallet
or the coins
or cash in your
pocket
and buy the
burger.
So too
people. You have
to taste them
– chew them –
digest them at
a dozen meals.
Then – only then
– you might start
to get them
at their carb or protein level.
© Reflections, Andy Costello
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
