November 25, 2018

ROUTE  13

Just traveled down most of Route 13

and then back in Delaware, Maryland,

Virginia, on the Delmarva Peninsula -

heading back and forth for Thanksgiving

Week with the family in Sandbridge, Virginia. 

Found it déjà vu like with birds on wires and

birds in the air - all the way down and back  

in the car on Route 13 with my sister.

I’m wondering about when I was with family everyone had a cellphone in hand - sort of like

a bird in hand - waiting for calls - from the air -

or through wires - if that’s the way this works.

Me? I don’t have a cellphone - so I’m talking

to myself - to my sister - to others - the old

fashioned way - face to face - eye to eye.

Me? Wondering: to whom are they talking -

and listening to? I’m don’t want to be labeled

out of date or an old grouch, but I tempted

to say “This new way is for the birds.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018