Wednesday, September 29, 2021

September 29,  2021

 

    YOU  GOTTA  LAUGH

 
Sometimes you gotta laugh,
especially when things go wrong.
 
Sometimes how we handle
mix-ups shows what we’re made of.
 
Sometimes that’s the bigger message
than the one we planned on.
 
Sometimes that’s the message everyone
remembers – so laugh:  it’s much more fun.

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021



September   29,  2021

 


 

 Thought for the Day

 

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”

 

Al Bernstein


Tuesday, September 28, 2021

September 28,  2021




WITH  AWE

 
There are many things to pause
for a moment with – like before doing:
opening up a can of paint before painting
a room, tasting a cold glass of water
with ice cubes, showing your kid how
to “walk the dog” with a yo yo, flying a kite
with your daughter, going on your first
plane flight, hearing the pouring of cold
ginger ale into a tall glass – on a hot day,
and many more. There are many more
moments like that …. Don't miss them ….

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021


September  28,  2021

 


Thought for the Day

 

“The marriages  we regard as the happiest  are those in which each of the partners believes that he or she got the best of it.”


Sydney Harris


Monday, September 27, 2021

 September 27, 2021


O  MY  GOD!

 

Sometimes
when  something
amazing happens
we say, "Oh my God!"


I'd rather think
that God loves it
when we do something
extraordinary and amazing!

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021





September   27,  2021 

 


Thought for the Day

 “Last night I spent an hour in the dark transept of St. Patrick’s Cathedral where I go now and then in my more lonely moods. An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses. What incessant murmurs fill that ever-laboring tireless church!  But to-day in my walk I thought that after all there is no conflict but rather a contrast. In the cathedral I felt one presence; on the highway I felt another.  Two different deities presented themselves: and, though I have only cloudy visions of either, yet I now feel the distinction between them.  The priest in me worshipped one God at one shrine; the poet another God at another shrine. The priest worshipped Mercy and Love; the poet, Beauty and Might.  In the shadows of the church I could hear the prayers of men and women;  in the shadows of the trees nothing human mingled with Divinity.  As I sat dreaming with the Congregation I felt how the glittering altar worked on my senses stimulating and consoling them; and as I went tramping through the fields and woods I beheld every leaf and blade of grass revealing or rather betokening the Invisible.”

 

Wallace Stevens, Journal

Sunday, September 26, 2021

September 26, 2021 




WHENEVER
 
I enjoy who I am,
therefore I enjoy
wherever I am,
whenever I am.
 
How about you?
Do you like
who you are,
wherever you are?
 
If not, sit down
and I’ll listen.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021