August   9,   2020

Thought for  Today

“Edith  was  a  little country bounded on the north, south, east and west by Edith.”

Martha Ostenso, [1900-1963]

Norwegian-American Novelist

August 8, 2020

JUST  LIKE  GOD

Who me? Like God?  How so?

Woooooooh! That’s a big one.

I hope it’s when I love.

I hope too, it’s when I create.

Not when I hate, I assume.

Not when I fake it.

Not when I have no clue.

I would think, it’s when

I'm really aware of others.

It's when I'm really human.

You're kidding?

Christ, no!  Christ, yes!

It's when I get crucified

for what is right. Woooooh!

It's when I rise. Wow.

And it's especially when I’m outside

of time: past, present and to come.

In fact, it’s right now. Hi God!

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

August 8, 2020

Thought  for  Today  

“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.” 

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900

August 7, 2020

A  SONG  REMEMBERED

Does everyone have a song –

a song remembered – played

in the back of their brain – in

the shower – in a storm – in pain –

that gets them to the other side

of a ache – or  the echo of a joy?

Ooops! There’s the genesis of

a new song: “The Echo or the

Ache”  - life in the inside of

everyone – in the need of song.

What's your song - like the one

at the beginning of a wedding?

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

August   7,   2020

Thought  for  Today

“Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.”

Austin O’Malley

August  6,  2020

TRANSFIGURATION

Go figure.
You want me to be different
than I am -  but you don't really
know who I am -  so tell me who
you want me to be - or as I suspect:
as you would want me to be.

Go figure.
That's what I did and that's how
I figured out what you really want
of me. Come up with a proposal.
Present me with a before and after
description and I might say, "I'm trying."

© Andy Costello, Reflections,  2020

August  6, 2020 

Thought  for  Today 

 “You never get a second chance  to make a first impression.”  

Will Rogers