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

 January  7,  2021

PEOPLE  ARE  DIFFERENT

 

People listen differently.
 
Words mean different things for different people.
 
Repeating it – doesn’t mean people still don’t get it.
 
People don’t know what they don’t get.
 
People get thinking after a disaster.
 
Right now, sometimes means, “Oh no. Not now!”
 
People don’t know why I put this here.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

January  7,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

“God is not yet finished with creation.”

 

Osho [1931-1990]

Come, Come, Yet Again Come

 January  6,  2021

January 6, 2021

 

EPIPHANY

 
It’s a new year!
 
Looking back on last year,
hopefully there was at least
one rich and enabling epiphany.
 
The Pandemic of 2020
had its messages and learnings:
the power or the poison of the invisible.
 
Or “There are moments we won’t forget
and surprises in the wings or at the back door
and “Who said we are really in control?”
 
It’s a new year!
 
If we were offered three gifts,
what would we choose 
besides gold, frankincense and myrrh.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

January  6,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“The person who knows everything has the most to learn.”

 

Someone whom

I don’t know.

January  5, 2021

FADING  AWAY

 
Is there a Law – one with a name
attached to it, like Decimo’s Law –
that goes like this: “Everything fades.”
 
Signs on red brick walls, paint on cars,
beauty on skin, macadam on roads,
eyes in seeing, memory in brains ….
 
“Everything fades….”  Hopefully the
skeptic, the lover in us, the dreamer
in us, will scream: “No way! I disagree.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

January  5,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“The wind, one brilliant day, called.”

 

Anthony Machado

January  4,  2021

 

MIXTURES

 
I like mixtures, combinations of
this and that: pennies, nickels
dimes and dollars – 4 seasons –
light and shadows on afternoon
floors as they climb half way up
a wall – then someone opens up
a door or a completely different
conversation is begun – memories
of last summer or Christmas when
we were kids and we both laugh
and cry about what life used to be
and we have hopes about what’s
next to come in this mixture called
life – as we try to make it make sense.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

January  4,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

“There are ten church members by inheritance for one by conviction.”

 

Comment: Austin O’Malley

Painting: Vincent Van Gogh

January 3, 2021

 

MIND  THE  GAP

 

I heard about them before
I got to London …. Then
I finally saw them before
getting off or on the London
Underground Tube trains.
 
Obviously acceptance of gaps
is better than denial of gaps.
 
They are there in every comment,
every relationship, every step,
whether we see them or not -
getting off or on the Underground
train to our next moment of life.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

January  3,  2021

 

THE  STEED  BIT HIS  MASTER 

The steed bit his master:
How came this to pass?
He heard the good pastor
Cry, “All flesh is grass.” 

Anonymous