January  11,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“All children wear the sign: ‘I want to be important now.’  Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.”’

 

Dan Pursuit:

co-author of

several books

on delinquency.

January 10, 2021

 

 BOOKSHELF

 

I have this bookshelf
somewhere there in
the left corner of my
brain – with some 20
or so books that have
shaped my life – but
I have to remember
what Robert Coles
said Anna Freud said,
“You have to re-read
those books that are you.”

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

January  10,  2021

Thought for the Day

“I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all,” Teddy said.  “It was on a Sunday, I remember.  My sister was only a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God.  I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.”

 

J.  D.  Salinger, Teddy

 January  9,  2021

PANDRINKIT

 
Been drinking too much
during this pandemic.
Maybe this drink – just
one more – will help drug
me – dull me – drowse me -
from the relentless angst

that is like an army of itchy

ants crawling inside of me
usually into the dark night.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

 

January  9,  2021

 Thought for the Day

 “Whatever  you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.” 

 James Russell Lowell

January  8,  2021

SHORT  WORDS 

TO EXPERIENCE

 

sea, sky, bog, cat, fur, fox,
pig, pug, ape, bug, bat, dog,
ear, eye, lip, leg, arm, hip,
cap, key, ant, jar, jug, cup, box,
inn, God, ego, old, rag, gag,
rub, tea, pin, ice, hot, gem,
ink, fig,  odd, pay, pen, off.
 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

January  8,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

“Lord,  grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”

 

Michelangelo