May 20, 2018

CARDS  FROM  LONG  AGO

She told me - when she gets lonely,

she gets out the cards

he gave her from long ago.

Then she added

the best part of the story.

When his eyes were almost

gone - when he couldn’t read,

he’d ask the card store lady

to read the words inside

out loud, till he heard

a  really  good one.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018  

May 20, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“When I say ‘everybody says so,’ I mean I say so.” 

Ed Howe  [1853 - 1937]

May 19, 2018

LOOK   AWAY

“Dad, why do you always look away when I

ask, “Don’t you think you’re drinking too much?”

“Hon, why do you always look away

when I ask, ‘How about going out to eat?”

“Mom, when I ask, ‘Are you going to go to

the doctor?’ you always look away. Why?”

When I ask, "Are you the one who keeps

doing this, you always look away.”

"Look me in the eye, please! Don't you
realize I'm scared to look you in the eye too?"

“Don’t look away. Look me in the eye and

tell me you want in or out of this relationship.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018  

May 19, 2018

Thought for today: 

“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.  There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.” 

Shirley Chisholm, 

testimony to House Select 

Committee on Crime, 

September 17, 1969

NERVOUS

Biting, trying to bite,

a tiny piece of skin 

with my teeth from 

my lower lip ….

Taping my fingers 

on a table top or a desk 

when you’re making yet 

again another request ….

Trying to get my finger 

nail under the edge of 

a scab on last week’s 

cut on my left hand ….

And these are just 

possible visible signs …. 

You have no idea what you 

do to the skin of my soul.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018 

May 18, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“Do not offer advice  which has not been seasoned by your own performance.” 

Henry S. Haskins

MOOD

Mood, like two dozen shirts or blouses,

suits or dresses, hanging there in the

morning closet - waiting for the occupant.

What will I wear today? How will I be today?

Smiling? Laughing? Lonely? or Sad?

Peppy? Angry? Aggressive or Silent?

Pick me! Pick me! Pick me! And my world

waits - watching me coming through the

front door saying, “Oh yes!”  or “Oh no!”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018