June 18, 2023
Quote for Today
"If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love someone else."
Ru Paul
Monday, June 19, 2023
Saturday, June 17, 2023
June 17, 2023
VERMEER
Great paintings
from this Dutch painter –
Johannes Vermeer –
getting us to see
the people in front of us -
The Lacemaker,
Girl With a Pearl Earring,
A Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window,
Girl With a Flute,
and many more.
He had an interesting life –
had 14 or 15 kids,
became a Catholic when it wasn’t allowed.
Well, when people see
his paintings, they become silent
as if in Church.
It only proves all is sacred,
all is holy,
all remains to be seen.
© Reflections, Andy Costello7, 2023
Friday, June 16, 2023
June 16, 2023
DREAMS
There are too many meanings
for this word, “Dream.”
I have so many dreams:
hopes, fantasies, possibilities,
impossibilities, plans, visions.
They come to me during boring
sermons, speeches, meetings.
They come to me when I want
to be doing something else.
It’s good to have them.
I love it – when I can ask a kid –
“What’s your dream?” or when
I can ask someone in a nursing
home, “Did you do your dreams?”
“Did you do your dreams?”
I have – but I still have more
dreams waiting to wake up to.
Glad to say and think that – still.
(c) Andy Costello, Reflections
Thursday, June 15, 2023
June 15, 2023
GROANING
“Oooooh!” and “Aaaaah!”
These are the sounds
taking place in the woods of my soul.
Add, “Uggh!” and “Aaagh!”
and I have my inner cries
and my deepest complaints.
Are these my prayers -
more real than those
on the prayer cards
or in my prayer book?
Are these the sounds
that nobody hears but me?
How about YOU, O God?
Do YOU listen in – in my soul?
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
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