December 15, 2018

IT’S  A  WONDERFUL LIFE

Every Christmas hopefully we watch

one of the 25 movies that make up

the gospel of film - those movies that

move us and get us to realize, “It’s

a Wonderful Life” and life is not a

“Groundhog Day” - we don't have to 
keep repeating ourselves - or “Casablanca” -

we don’t have to lose each other.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

December 15, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“E=mc2” "[Energy equals mass of light squared.]  The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2.].”  

Albert Einstein, Statement 

of the mass-energy equivalence 

relationship. It can be found in 

Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers 

von Seinem Engegieghalt 

Abhangig? [1905]

December 14, 2018

ROLE  REVERSAL

Parents and children gradually switching  roles -

all so slowly - first childhood - second childhood -children becoming adults - adults becoming children - kids  learning words - adults forgetting names - diapers - Depends - learning to walk - learning how to use a walker - all right before our eyes. Parents and children - both denying these realities.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

December 14, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“Important  principles may and must be inflexible.”  

Abraham Lincoln, 

Last public address,  

Washington D.D. [April 11, 1865]

December 13, 2018

MERRY  GO  ROUND

Looking back, I’ve never seen an

unhappy face on a merry-go-round.

Yet, so much of life is repeated

sounds, words, motions, illusions,

in and out of cars, the opening and

closing of doors and jars and boxes.

Looking back I’ve seen unhappy

faces in churches and on their jobs.

Maybe seeing life as a merry-go-round

might be a metaphor for having to do

life  - listening to the music, enjoying

life and seeing the circle of life together.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

December 13, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, ‘Ours,’” 

Vine Deloria, Jr.

December 12, 2018

FREEDOM

Freedom at 13 is so much different

than freedom at 33  - but the real live

freedom we all long for should be 

happening by 73 or 83 - when we have no 

fear of  heaven or hell - when we put the

rest of our life in God's pottering hands -

and we start to really enjoy looking back

at all our wonderful memories and roads

and we're ready for what's yet to come -

and here we come - ready or not. Amen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018