June  10,  2023

OUTSIDE

 

We find ourselves outside more than inside –

in stories and conversations and situations.

Sometimes we try to get inside the mystery –

if that is what we think it is – or we are simply

nosey. We just want to know! That’s it. Yes.

Or we give up and move onto something else.

Little kids do that all the time. Next. The new ….

Or what’s really happening – maybe – is our

desire to be on the inside? Wondering – just

wondering – are the first moments after we

die – a gathering of questions – the inside?

God. Life. Others. The why question has

to be one of life’s main question. Why’s that?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 June 10, 2023

Quote for Today

"When I give food to the poor they call me a saint.  When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist."

Helder Camara (1909- )

 June 9, 2023

SOUNDS

 

Sounds all around.

Someone beeps their car.

A baby cries.

A dog barks.

I yawn.

I love the sound of trains.

That sound brings me back to my high school days.

That was way before my health problems.

It was way before anyone asked me my date of birth.

Sounds good to me.

Let’s get a milk shake.

“Hi!”

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 June 9, 2023

Quote for Today

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together  through the years.  That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!"

Simone Signoret (1921-1985)

in Daily Mail, July 4, 1978

 June 8, 2023

REMEDIES

 

Is life one long search for remedies?

How to fix a broken heart?

How to heal the cut?

How to stop the blood?

How to know what to say

at the funeral parlor?

The best way to raise a kid?

How to forgive a brother or a sister?

Whom do we talk to when we have

to talk to someone?

Is life one long search for remedies?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 

 June 8, 2023

Quote for Today

"You know more than you think you do."

Benjamin Spock (1903-1998)    

Common Sense Book of Baby

and Child Care (1946)

 June 7, 2023

STATEN  ISLAND  FERRY

 

Way before the Verrazano Bridge

As kids we loved a trip across the Narrrows –

that water way between Brooklyn

and Staten Island – on the ferry.

5 cents, Looking back I never asked

my dad his thoughts – as he stood

at the railing – seeing boats – from

everywhere. Did it bring him back to

his arrival in America by boat from Ireland?

That’s one more question I never asked

him – one more wondering – about his life.

Was there any grammar school teacher

who gave us questions to ask our parents

when we got home from school or are

these just one more of the many questions

we get long after they died?

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello