June 27, 2020

PERPETUAL  HELP

Everyone of us at times is a little kid 

lost and looking for our mother – 

especially when we can’t breathe – 

especially when people are on our back – 

especially when we need help – and 

sometimes that’s a deep down perpetual 

feeling: “Help! Where are you Momma?" 

We’ve lost our way – our shoes are falling  

off and we don’t know where to run. "Help!" 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

June   27,  2020

Thought  for  Today  

“The longest word in the English language is: ‘And  now  a word from our sponsor.’”

Someone

PUZZLE 

Sometimes 

you get sick 

and someone 

gives you 

a puzzle

that is

more difficult

than a hill of beans.

Well, when they

are not looking

there is always

Goodwill!

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

June  26,  2020

EVERY  DAY

Every day - like today - is special

to someone - but it's like any other

day to someone else. 

So, is there anything I'm supposed

to do about this today?

No, except to use each day to check in

on each other. Hey, you never know

about a day - what it means to another.

Like today: it's the 50th anniversary of

my father's death in Maimomides Hospital

in Brooklyn, N.Y. June 26th, 1970.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

June  26,   2020

Thought  for  Today

“Odd thing, I’d never thought of my pa as a person. I expect a child rarely does think of his parents that way. They are a father and a mother, but a body rarely thinks of them as having hopes, dreams, ambitions and desires and loves .... I got to wondering if he ever doubted himself like I did, if he ever felt short of what he wished to be, if he ever longed for things beyond him that he couldn’t quite put into words.” 

Louis L'Amour, Lando

in  A Trail of Memories.

Picture: My dad at

Nabisco, where he 

worked most of his life

in the United States.

June  25, 2020

TIME  FOR  SORTING 

It takes time to sort out

who we are and what

we mean to each other -

husband and  wife, mom and dad

and kids and friends.

It takes time after one dies

to understand how much

we love and loved one another -

to really look at all those moments

and memories that were gifts that

we really didn’t notice at the time.

It takes time to grow a baby,

to live a life, to make a

marriage spring up in the field of

our life - along with so much more.

It takes time to pray - to sort out

our life -  to thank God for the

people who have been in our life.

It takes time to bury our dead

while the rest of the world

goes back to business and

we shed tears of sadness

and gladness and slowly

let our new world with and

without our loved one become our

new life. Thank God for children.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

June   25,   2020

Thought  for  Today

 “The  voice  is  a  second  face.”

Gerard   Bauer