March  6,  2021

OUR  FACE

 

Where did we get our face?
Do we like it?
Compare it to our mom’s and dad’s.
How much does geography sculpt us?
What about relationships?
Who puts a smile on our face?
Who puts a scowl?
Did you know there are people
who don’t know the color of our eyes?
What name do we like to be called?
Do we have a safe mirror?
Has anyone said, “You look beautiful?”
Give me a name? Who?
Whose face lights up when we arrive?
When we do we look our best?
What’s the greatest thing
anyone ever said about you?
Tell me about that moment?
What did it do to your face?

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

March  6,  2021

Thought for the Day

 

“The Four-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss was rejected by 25 publishers. It has now been translated in 40 languages with more than 2.1 million copies sold."

 March  5, 2021

CONCENTRIC  CIRCLES

 

I am part of somewhere –
culture, community, circles ….
My DNA mixes with millions
of others. We are part of the
dance of life. Our hands are
joined with millions of others.
Just listen to me speak.
Just look me in the eye.
Just check out my face.
We are one. We are many.
Put down the erasers.
Melt down the rifles.
Head for the hills.
Fill up the valleys.
Meet each other.
Start singing the songs.
Start playing the music.
Start dancing the dance

in our concentric circles. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

March  5,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Starting when I was fifteen I began to send short stories to magazines like Esquire, and they, very promptly, sent them back two days before they got them! I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn’t realize what a strong person I was; I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn. Then, during the late forties, I actually began to sell short stories and accomplished some sort of deliverance from snowstorms in my fourth decade. But even today, my latest books of short stories contain at least seven stories that were rejected by every magazine in the United States and also in Sweden! So, dear Snoopy, take heart from this. The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so.”

 

Ray Bradbury

 March  4.  2021

PRACTICE,  PRACTICE,  PRACTICE

Practice, Practice, Practice,
Dedication, Dedication, Dedication,
Time, Time, Time,
Sacrifice, Sacrifice, Sacrifice,
Watch, Watch, Watch,
Determination, Determination, Determination,
Learn, Learn, Learn,
Tradition, Tradition, Tradition,

Culture, Culture, Culture,
History, History, History,
Innovation, Innovation, Innovation,
Dance, Dance, Dance,

Music, Music, Music, 

Want to, Want to, Want to.
  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

March 4,  2021

Thought for the Day

 

“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”

 

 Sylvia Plath

 March  3,  2021

WHAT  DO  YOU  HAVE?

 
You never know what the other has
till they are called out onto the floor.
 
Sing, dance, step up to the plate, let’s see
what you can bring to the game of life.
 
Write the book, get on stage, get the job,
do the dishes, cut the grass, tell the joke.
 
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, lead
the crowd, make this a much better world.
 
See the smiles, watch people shed their fears
as they are called onto the dance floor of life.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021