May 20, 2023
ILLUSIONS
We use them
to avoid facing
our knowing –
our knowing –
that we have
some unfinished business –
that ism’t
being done. It’s something
we just don’t
want to face.
It’s
something we just
don’t want to do. We’re lazy.
So we create
an illusion.
It’s a fake
truth we say
is a truth we know isn’t true.
But often
that slips into
a believed
reality and it’s
then we’re
living an illusion.
© Reflections, Andy Costello
May 19, 2023
IMAGINATION
Sometimes we
forget we have one –
imagination
that is. We forget we
can go to
places we’ve never been to –
during a
boring sermon or when we’re
stuck at
dinner next to someone who
doesn’t seem
to have any imagination.
They do –
everyone has one – since
our first
box of crayons – or clay –
or being asked
to be an actor in a
kindergarten
play or to dance at
a wedding.
Look at hippos or giraffes
and laugh
with God at what God
has come up - add, “and some dogs”.
Check our a
local pug’s face. Interesting….
© Reflections, Andy Costello
May 18, 2023
Diamonds – so too rubies – so too
our grandfather’s gold pocket watch ….
They last in boxes on our bedroom
bureau
top to be noticed when we are moving –
like
to a nursing home – or when we die.
But what really lasts is a nasty
comment,
an affair or the moment we met our
spouse.
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
May 17, 2023
SOMETIMES THEY KNOW
Sometimes the little old lady in the chair
in the corner knows much more than the
rest of the folks in the room. Beneath the
wrinkles – in some corner of her brain – is
a vault full of ideas – helpful answers to the
whys and wherefores of our questions....
Old Men too – but you have to ask – then
you have to take time to listen, listen, listen.
© Reflections, Andy Costello
