January  28,  2023 

MATCHES

 

I hope nobody is out there planning

to do away with matches ….

wooden or cardboard matches.

They better not. There are still

times we’re looking for a match –

to light a candle – to find a flashlight

when the electricity has gone out.

Isn’t it great when we find a book

of matches from Jack’s Bar and Grill

in Winston Salem, North Carolina?

“Honey when were we there?”

And memories are lit from way

back when – when we were young –

when we realized we were a match –

and yeah – we better never miss out on

a chance to make a pun and be punny.

 

 

© Reflections,  Andy Costello

 January 28, 2023

Quote for today

"If the highest aim of a captain is to preserve his ship,   he would keep it in port forever."

 

Thomas Aquinas. [1225-1274]

January 27, 2023

              FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

 

Apples, oranges, peaches, pears, plums,

melons, grapes, bananas, and hundreds

and hundreds and hundreds of tangerines ….

 

Potatoes, lettuce and tomatoes,

beans, peas,  cucumbers and hundreds

and hundreds and hundreds ears of corn ….

 

I can’t paint canvas paintings of fruits

and vegetables – but I can picture plates

filled with delicious slices of both ….

 

I can't eat paintings ,

but I can bite into bananas, tangerines

and savor corn on the cob....

© Reflections,  Andy Costello

 

 January 27, 2023

Quote for Today

"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."

John Milton [1608-1674]

"Arcades"  [1643], 68

 January 26,  2023

TAKE GOOD CARE

OF MY DARLING DAUGHTER

 

Father-Daughter relationships

are so, so different than mother-son

or mother-daughter or father-son

relationships– in fact, all 4 are an

experience to take a good look at.

To walk down the aisle at a daughter’s

wedding,  it’s a gift every father

cherishes for the rest of his life.

Warning to son-in-laws: cherish

my daughter more than I do! Take

good care of my darling daughter.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 January 26, 2023

Quote for Today

"I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

Bill Nye [1922 - }

Mark Twain Auobiography (1924), Vol. 1

January 25, 2023

 

IT  RAINED

 

It rained and too many people

complained. Some people don’t

take the time to think about

what they are saying.

 

Let it rain. Let it rain. Let it rain.

Or let the sun or shadows touch

my back porch and I love looking

at the sun setting in the west.

 

Maybe it will rain tomorrow.

Maybe the sun will shine.

Or maybe it will do both.

Let it be. Let it be. Let it be. 

 

© Reflections Andy Costello

January 25, 2023

 

Quote for Today

 

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”

 

Ed Gardener [1901-1963]

In Duffy’s Tavern’

(U.S. Radio Program 1940’s)

 January 24, 2023

SCULPTURING

We are. 

Whether we know it or not, we are

forever sculpting each other with

our words – with our looks – with

our way of being with each other.

 

We are.

 

Holding a door, allowing another

to get ahead of us to get three

sips of water or to place our order

at a restaurant – all is sculpturing.

 

We are.

 

The bad news is that this happens

with bad stuff – like addictions.

The good news is that this happens

with good stuff  like compliments and love.

 

We are.

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 January 24, 2023

Quote for Today

"Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian."

Robert Fry [1866-1934]

Virginia Woolf Robert Fry [1940] Chapter 11

 January 23, 2023

WHAT  WOULD  IT  TAKE?

 

What would it take to get a standing ovation?

What would it be like to get one – a “Yes!” vote?

Do we all have a gift – a talent – an ability

that could take the house down or do we

have to practice, practice, practice?

Does every person we go by, sit next to

on the train or plane deserve recognition

for their contributions to life on this planet?

People claim to be pro life – yet they yawn,

not listen, and pick up the paper when another

walks onto the stage called “Life!” No! No! No!

Don’t fail to clap for the other. Yes! Yes! Yes!

 

 © Reflections, Andy  Costello

January 23, 2023

Quote for Today

"I want to go on living even after death!"

Anne Frank [1929-1945]

Diary April 4, 1944 

 January 22, 2023

REGRETS

 

Regrets – they can be silent

and sneaky – sticking to our

inner skin – making their

appearance on rainy days –

like a bill we didn’t pay –

like meeting someone who

looks like someone who

hurt us back then - back when

things just weren’t going right

for  us. Can we flush them?

Can we forget them by moving

or just becoming better with age –

but as I said they can reappear –

unwanted, ugly and unannounced?

Regrets .... Regrets .... Regrets ....

Not so easy …. Not so easy.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections

REGRETS

They

 January 22, 2023

Quote for Today'

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns, at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement."

Ben  Franklin, 1706-1789]

Poor Richard's Almanac [1758] June