May 19, 2023

 

IMAGINATION

 

Sometimes we forget we have one –

imagination that is.   We forget we

can go to places we’ve never been to –

during a boring sermon or when we’re

stuck at dinner next to someone who

doesn’t seem to have any imagination.

They do – everyone has one – since

our first box of crayons – or clay –

or being asked to be an actor in a

kindergarten play or to dance at

a wedding. Look at hippos or giraffes

and laugh with God at what God

has come up  - add, “and some dogs”.

Check our a local pug’s face. Interesting….

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 May 19, 2023

Quote for Today

"Boredom  is ... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]

The Conquest of Happiness ((1930) Chapter 4

 May 18, 2023

LASTING

 

Diamonds – so too rubies – so too

our grandfather’s gold pocket watch ….

They last in boxes on our bedroom bureau

top to be noticed when we are moving – like

to a nursing home – or when we die.

But what really lasts is a nasty comment,

an affair or the moment we met our spouse.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

May 18, 2023

Quote for Today

"Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?" 

Michael Torke in Observer, 

September 23, 1990

 May 17, 2023

 

SOMETIMES THEY KNOW

 

Sometimes the little old lady in the chair

in the corner knows much more than the

rest of the folks in the room.  Beneath the

wrinkles – in some corner of her brain – is

a vault full of ideas – helpful  answers to the

whys and wherefores of our questions....

Old Men too – but you have to ask – then

you have to take time to listen, listen, listen.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 May 17, 2023

Quote for Today

"Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason.  For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.  Therefore it would be desirable and good for the doctors or theology to know something about it and to understand what it actually is. and cease unjustly and unfoundedly to call it witchcraft."

Paracelsus

 May 16,  2023

Reflection

GATHERING IN A CIRCLE

 

The scene’s the same:

circles of friends –

quilting parties – taking

the place of sewing circles –

exchanging family happenings –

gossip – worries – needs ….

The equality of a round table ….

Working together on a project ....

Who sits where? Who controls

the conversation? Who turns things around?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello