May  2,  2020

THE  RUB

“Ay, there’s the rub …”

Sometimes it takes time

to figure out why the other

rubs us the wrong way.

They do at times and it’s not a dream.

They rub salt in our wounds.

They rub us the wrong thing.

They do the wrong thing - at

various times and in various ways.

They do and it’s a nightmare.

The bottom line is: they are difficult.

And like Hamlet, we don’t want

to be thinking “To be or not to be”,

but solution, solution, solution.

We have a problem here and sleep is not enough. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

May   2,  2020

Freud:  "He has shown us all how awful we really are, for ever nursing grudges we felt in childhood."

Rebecca West, 

Quoted Jill Craigle, 

The Times,  

December 6, 1982

May  1.  2020

JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS 

“What do you do for a living.”

“I work.”

“I mean, what job do you have?”

“Oh, this and that and a couple of other things.”

“Oh …”

“Well, where do you live?”

“Not too far from here.”

“Well, where do you come from?”

“Well, also,  not that far from here.”

“Do you have a family?”

“Yep!”

“Well, how old are you?”

“Getting up there.”

‘”By any chance are you in the

Witness protection program?”

“Why are you asking that question?”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

May  1.   2020

Thought for  Today

“People  should  tell your children what life is all about—it’s about work.” 

Lauren  Bacall

April  30,   2020

A  CRI  DE  COEUR

Does everyone have one:

at least one  cri  de  coeur?

I tried to tell you what I was feeling

but you would not listen.

Maybe you were also crying.

Daddy wouldn’t ….

Mommy was always  somewhere else

as she sat there while he yelled.

I wanted peace in the family,

but nobody else said anything.

I could have been a poster child

for “The Scream!”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

April   30,  2020

Thought  for  Today 

“Next  time you feel a bit under the weather,  give the pills and potions a miss and try reading – or writing – some poetry.  That is the advice of doctors who are taking part in a Bristol University study which shows that sometimes a few  lines of Wordsworth, Keats or Browning can overcome a patient’s need for minor tranquillisers." 

Paul Stokes,

The Daily Telegraph,

February 15, 1994

April   29,  2020

IRREGULAR  INNER  SOUNDS

Is there a box on a top shelf in an 

inner  closet that contains a raw 

collection of our unique inner sounds? 

I know there are outer ones: “Oooh!”; 

“Hmm!”; “Ouch!”; “No, no, no!”; “Ugh!”; 

“Bummer!”; “Crud!”; “Crap!”; “Christ!” 

I went through that box the other night. 

Sure enough, there are even some prayers 

in there.  I guess Christ is everywhere. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020