September 25,  2021

FOUR  SEASONS

It's a blessing to live
in a place that will give
you four seasons.
So no complaining
if that's what you get.
Enjoy the rain, the wind,
the snow and the golden
glow of autumn leaves.

Pause to see the naked

trees of winter - and the

budding trees of spring.

Let your face feel the 

summer rains - and the

sound of boots in the 

wet grass - the flood of 

water when out west 

it's all dry, fire and hot, 

hot heat on the back porch - 

with laziness as is the 

prevailing mood.

September   25,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”

 

Emily Dickinson, Letters

September 24, 2021

PATHS  THROUGH  THE  WOODS

 

As you pass through the woods,
as you path your way through life,
may every twist and turn splash
buckets and buckets and buckets
of green beauty all over you –
with gray blue mist above you –
surrounded by a symphony orchestra 

of birds and gulping and gasping water –
flowing and falling its way through
rocks – crevices – openings. Be 

careful of broken branches. Don't

slide or trip on dark wet earth – 

as you make your way through 

the woods – either on your way 

home or you’re heading down 

to the waters to the sea to see.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

September   24,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Books of poems lying around are handy / For killing persistent irritating flies.”

 

 

Geofrey Grigson,

History of Him, 1951

September 23, 2021

 

GLASS  BOWL 

Sand, tiny twigs
of drift wood, a
few small pieces
of red rock – dirt,

dry, silent,  just
sitting there enclosed for
at least 80 years now –
not doing anything – no -  
not me – no way –
me aging – changing –
differing all through
the years …. thank God –

life never in a glass bowl.

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

September   23,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“It is not surprising that boredom – in human beings so often the mask of fear – is a problem in marriage as it is a problem in prayer.”

 

Monica Furlong,

Christian Uncertainties, 1975

 September 22,  2021

WELCOME

September   22,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

 

Susan Ertz,

Anger in the Sky

September 21,  2021

DREAMS WALKING BY

 
When we walk by people
we’re walking by dreams.
 
Hopes push the wind into
trees: they shake, shake.
 
We’re fulfilled and broken
each one of us. We are ….
 
The years go by – as we
go by limos and hearses.
 
I want a job – a great wedding and
marriage and family and a long life.
 
Ask me at the right time and
I’ll tell you about my dreams.
 
Ask me at the wrong time and
you might see only my tears.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 September   21,  2021

Thought for the Day

 

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He does not want to sign his work.”

September   20,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Until one has loved an animal,  a part of one’s soul remains awakened.”

 September 20,  2021

Reflection

September 19, 2021

 

BABY  CARRIAGE

 

Coming up the street –
a couple pushing a baby carriage.
Blessed moment for me.
I could see the baby’s face.
They couldn’t – so I got the smile
in this moment of passing time.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

September   19,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

“O God, if there is a God, save my soul, if I have a soul.”

 

Anonymous – 

Prayer of a common soldier 

before the battle 

of Blenheim, 1704