May  20, 2020

Thought  for  Today

“Time  is  not  a  line, but a series of now points.” 

Taisen Deshimaru

May  19,  2020

ROCK  AND  WATER

For some reason, I stopped for a moment.

A realizing is happening. After a while everything

between us has become rock and water ….

Did I just say something in Zen –

that relationships, conversations –

everything in life is give and take?

I look up. Drop by drop  the rain falls

on the earth. I look out and see the

waves keep continuing towards the shore ….

Sometimes I’m the giver; sometimes the receiver;

sometimes I have no clue where I am – in

a cloud – in the ocean – or deep in a rock.

Now what? Next? More? Stop! Wait! Is there a message,

a meaning, an answer here? Of course there is. It's the

pause when we can become aware of the ALL.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

Picture taken of the jetty at the

Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,

but I could also use a picture of the 

rocks and the ocean where I now

am in Long Branch, New Jersey.

May  19, 2020

Thought  for  Today 

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts -  for support rather than illumination.”  

Andrew Lang, quoted

By A. L. Mackay, in

Harvest of a Quite Eye

May  18,  2020

*

ASTERISK

We’ll be long dead, 

if they stick an asterisk 

after some of our accomplishments. 

I only want one asterisk: 

He believes he’s still alive, 

because he believes Jesus rose from the dead. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

May  18, 2020

Thought   for   Today

 “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

Pablo Picasso,

Quoted John Golding,

Cubism

May  17,  2020 

6  FEET  AWAY 

Heck …. I’ve been staying 

60 feet away from some people – 

even when they are only 6 inches away. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

May 17, 2020

Thought  for  Today 

“Jazz is playin’ from the heart.  you don’t lie.” 

William Geary (Bunk) Johnson.

Quoted Nat Shapiro,

Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music