July  4,  2020

  

“HURRY”

"Hurry." I'm filled with too much hurry.

“Hurry …. Hurry .…”  is my inner sound.

Sometimes I add an “up” – as in “Hurry up!”

“Hurry …. Hurry….”  I keep watching my watch –

which doesn’t seem to go faster…. “Faster!”

I hear an ambulance getting closer. Good!

“Hurry!”  as I inwardly scream.  It gets past

me as I assume it’s heading for whatever

is causing this traffic jam – on this road

that is blocked. I sit back in my stopped

car – close my eyes. I had put my car

in park.  Traffic will start flowing again.

It always does. I’ve been in dozens of

traffic stoppings – dozens of conversation

jams – supermarket check-out wrong

choices. I breathe. I meditate. I let go of

this need - this scream to “Hurry – hurry up!”  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July   4,   2020

Thought  for  Today

 “The one thing to do is to do nothing.  Wait …  You will find that you survive humiliation and  that’s  an experience of incalculable value.”  

T. S.  Eliot, 

The Cocktail Party, 1949

July   3,    2020

PAST

My past haunts my future ….

Can’t shake it off. It’s like

a sliver  of old scotch tape –

stuck to my left hand –

which my right hand doesn’t

know what it’s doing.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July  3,  2020

Thought   for   Today

 “Old age is … a lot of crossed off names in an address book.”

Ronald Blyth in

The View of Winter  1980

July  2,   2020

 SPONGE

The pale blue sponge

on the sink still held half

of its grey dish water

till the next morning.

Its smell as well –

mushroom and meat fat ….

“Oooh!” Then and there,

I realized this is me.

Then and there I resolved,

“Never again!” And I’m

the one who hated the sink

rag face wipe as a kid.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July  2,  2020

Thought   for   Today  

“To   my  mind the most poignant mystical  exhortation ever written  is ‘Be still and know that I am God.’” 

Arnold Bennett  Journals,

December 1929

Cf. Psalm 46:10

July  1,   2020

OUTLOOK 

To understand another’s outlook, 

we must take an inlook at where we 

got our outlook on the same situation. 

Check it out with our parents if they 

are still alive  - or with our brothers 

and sisters if we have them – or others. 

Then see options – different opinions – 

and last – but not least – if possible – 

talk to the other person – and listen. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020