June 1st, 2019

FOREVER

What would happen to us,

if it hit us that we are going

to exist forever?  FOREVER …?

That we can’t suicide ourselves

out of existence ….  that we will

die - but we’re going to exist forever.

I sense we avoid facing that thought -

that question - because it has powerful

earthquake - eternal - consequences.

When I die - will the me I am - exist

somehow, someway, somewhere -

forever - FOREVER -  FOREVER?

If the answer is, “Yes!” then we ought

to sense we better be doing something

about that  - now - before the FOREVER.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June 1st, 2019

Thought for today: 

“People ought to listen more slowly!” 

Jean Sparks Ducey, Librarian, 

“On confused requests such as, 

‘Do you have the wrath of grapes’ 

and ‘I want a book about 

the Abdominal Snowman,’” 

in Christian Science Monitor, 

December 9, 1986

May  31, 2019

HANDS  REACHING  OUT  

I see hands reaching out ….

The old man for the nurse ….

The child from her carriage ….

The husband for his wife

as they walk into church

for a friend’s funeral ….

Couples hearing the song

Sweet Caroline at the

ball game: “hands, touching

hands, reaching out,

touching me, touching you ….”

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

May    31, 2019

Thought for today: 

“I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.”  

Ronald Reagan, 

as presidential candidate, 

quoted in the New York Times, 

Sept 22, 1980

May 30, 2019

MOMENTS

Pick another moment,

there are many, when

you’re having a bad one.

Pick the moment you

came down the aisle

for marriage or graduation.

Pick the moment you won

a spelling bee - or you made

your first chocolate layer cake.

Pick the day you got off a joke

that got a great laugh and you

were also surprised - so clever.

Pick the surprises - the sunrises -

not the storms or the sins or

the dumb moves or the hurts.

Pick the Easter Sunday mornings -

pick the Christmas Midnight Masses -

pick the moments God sang Halleluja.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

May    30, 2019

Thought for today: 

“I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.” 

Doctor Albert Schweitzer, 

Recalled on his death, 

September 4, 1965

May 29, 2019

ECHOES

A piano going “Blink, blink, blink” -

a cold silver butter knife like

blinking sound going  through  

open autumn afternoon windows ….

A bowling ball rolling down

a well waked wooden floor, but it

only hits 9 pins - leaving one standing ….

A car horn beeps, “Beep! Beep! Beep!”

It’s from the  angry driver

in the car right behind my car ….

I’m too slow for her - I guess ….

As I’m aging I’m hearing

more and more echoes of

anger and anxiety ….

I guess I’m getting too slow

for too, too many people.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019