March  20,  2021

WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE?

 

What would it be like if it seems
like everything in your life is going
bad, bad, bad, right down the drain –
and you’re walking through a train
station and your bags are heavy –
and your tummy is funny and you
feel all alone – anonymous in a big,
big city  - and suddenly the whole
world erupts in a dance of joy?
What would that be like – like – like?

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

March  20,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

“The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched!”

Israelmore Ayivor

 March  19,  2021

DEPRESSION 

Talk to someone.
Write your poem.
Paint your paintings.
Jot in your journal.
Admit your feelings.
Take a walk.
Take a shower.
Do something for someone. Quick!
Volunteer.
Buy a watermelon! Taste it. Share it.
Find your talent.
Play your piano or harmonica.
Tell your story.
Hear the other’s story.
Share your secrets.
Find good metaphors.
There are dark corners.
Buy a good lamp.
Enough with the lies.
Laugh at them.
Find out if your grandfather had similar problems.
Look at geography: it has its ups and downs.
So too an electrocardiogram.
Don’t go to your funeral till you have to.

There's more ....

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

March  19,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“I want to die young at a ripe old age.”

 

Ashley  Montagu

 March  18,  2021

GONE  FISHING

 

Did you ever drive down a road
in the early evening and you come
to a bridge and there are people fishing?
 
Did you ever look at their faces?
Be careful  now you’re driving.
But did you ever look at their faces?
 
Did you ever wonder why Jesus
picked fisherman? Did you ever
look at their faces when Jesus spoke?
 
Did you ever wonder why a question
mark is shaped like a fishing hook?
Did anyone ever ask you a great question?
 
Did you ever notice: Jesus asked a lot
of questions? Did one ever hook you?
Try that and feel what it does to your face.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 March  18,  2021

March  18,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”

 

Auggie  Pullman

 March  17,  2021 

IRISH  BLESSINGS 

 
Blessings you’re  - to want  - to need -
to have -  as you travel up and  down

the roads and twisting paths of this life.
 
Rock: the presence of hard strength
especially when the waves are crashing
and smashing and hitting your shore.
 
A Smile: when you’re really happy or you’re
really hurting – like when you feel that others
are talking about you at tea on another table.
 
The Bog: to give you heat when the foreigners
have cut down all your trees and your sons have left
to mine for coal in far off places like Scranton.
 
The Tavern: the place to sneak off to for a drop –
and cold butter on Irish soda bread - to sing, to dance,
to listen to the fiddle and to talk to an old friend.
 
The Celtic Cross:  when death has taken away
a spouse or ripped a relationship in two and you’re
all alone and the cemetery is just down the hill.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021