Tuesday, April 11, 2023

April 11, 2023


Quote for Today


"It has long been an axiom of mine that  the little things are infinitely the most important."

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Monday, April 10, 2023

April 10,, 2023


April 10, 2023

 

SIDEWAYS

 

Sometimes we figure it out

that the best way to approach

another is sideways – that is,

through the back or side door.

We know – just know – this is

the best way to go – to get to

where we want to go – but

going frontways – face to face –

just doesn’t work. Worse:

it’s the worse way to go.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

DESCRIBE WHAT LOVE  IS?


Tell me what love is like?

It's listening.

It's thinking of the other.

It's the cross.

It's putting the others first.

It's caring.

It's forgiving.

It's not taking the seat you want.

It's not always being frustrated.

It's not knowing and always going bonkers about that.

It's giving the uninteresting a call now and then.

It's knowing there is more than me.



(c) Andy Costello, Reflections






April 10, 2023 


Quote for Today


"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."


Mark Twain, (1835-1910)

Notebook

Sunday, April 9, 2023

 April 9. 2023


Reflection



April 9, 2023

 

DISSAPPOINTMENT

 

It we start talking to each other,

the other or we ourselves will

tell the other our disappointments.

This takes time and the aging process.

We didn’t finish a plan or a hope.

We made a promise never done.

The other might have died or

moved away and that’s that.

Or we could make a phone call

and make a confession of

our sins or broken promises

or we can forgive others.

If we get this we can get what

the Catholic Church has in

the Sacrament of Reconciliation

or  “Going to Confession”.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello


 April 9. 2023



Quote


"Honesty is the best policy but there are too few policyholders."

Saturday, April 8, 2023

April 8, 2023


Reflection


 

April 8, 2023

GHOSTS

 

Of course there is no such thing as ghosts.

Yet the people of our past are still walking

with us. They are still whispering to us.

And if they yelled at us they still do

when  we break their rules for us.

Their  presence – their voices -

still sit there in our choices. Solution:

listen to those voices, analyze them,

accept the best and discard the rest.

Easier said than done.

Become our own person while we

still have time and talk to our children

about what we have figured out so far.

 

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 April 8, 2023

Quote


""A British judge said, 'Women make the best murderers' but men do most of the killing.'"