November  4,  2020

WANDERING AND WONDERING

 

God, I think I know,
what you do all day:
you walk around and you watch!

You wander and you wonder.

You stop to watch the faces

of new born mothers and fathers
with their first child – that first week
they got them – laughing and loving
the new adventure of parenting.

You watch kids on ferry rides –
or trying their new bike – or playing
their first game of cards with the adults –
or sipping some beer – or taking pictures
with cell phones like the adults do. 

Life is filled with so much 

wandering and wondering.

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

November 4, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Wink at small faults; for thou hast great ones.” 

 

Thomas  Fuller

 

November 3, 2020

THE  PENDULUM

 

The pendulum

was slow and heavy,

a dark brooding rusting orange iron weight

in an oversized tie.

 

It had pushed too far.

 

Today, November 3^rd, 2020,

a nation voted to stop the pushing.

 

He had gone too far.

 

Today it will start to fall

the other way. Our nation

will breathe a sigh of relief

by midnight – let’s hope.

And truth will come crashing

into our relationships with one another

on just what happened.

And please God, agita and anxiety

will leave our bodies and our souls –

at least for a needed rest and meanwhile.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

November 3, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.  It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.  It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

 

Truman Capote,  

In Cold Blood,  1965

 November 2,  2020

ALL  SOULS  DAY

 

Today we remember all those who have
gone before us – saints and sinners – all souls.
 
Today we remember our mom and dad and
all family members who have gone before us.
 
Today we remember all those who have nobody
left to remember them – nobody left to pray for them.
 
Today we remember all those people who died
horrible deaths in war and gas chambers – in violence.
 
Today we remember babies who never got to be born
and old people who never had people to visit them.
 
Today we remember all those we hope to meet
and greet when get to the heavenly Kingdom, please God.
 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 

 November 2, 2020

 

Orson Wells by Gore Vidal

Thought for Today

 

 “Gluttony is not a secret vice.”

 

Orson Wells

November 1, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Others are not against you; they’re merely for themselves…”

 

Jan Christian Smuts

 

 

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