March 9, 2018

SALT AND PEPPER

If you had to describe

a friend would you want

them to taste like

and be nicknamed

salt or pepper?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018 

March 8, 2018

Thought for today:

 Mother Teresa  when she was a young woman

“The biggest  disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being  unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.  We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love.” 

Mother Teresa

March 8, 2018

SHADOWS

So elusive.

they keep slipping away,

like trying to remember

a name when you’re

almost 80.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018 

March 7,  2018

MY CEILING

Ceiling, you have a plain face

even with your stains

from all these years

living above me.

Ceiling, you’re like a camera,

quietly perched above me,

watching and hearing everything,

unnoticed by me all these years.

Ceiling, now that I know

you know all my secrets,

I got news for you:

I’ll never let you out of this room.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 7.  2018

Thought for today: 

“As long as you know that most men are  like  children  you  know everything.”  

Coco [Gabrielle] Channel, [1883-1979]

March 6, 201

LISTENING

Some people say more by listening

that those who try to say things by

talking - and these talkers only learn

this when they stop talking and listen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 6, 2018

Thought for today: 

“People ask you for criticism, but   they only want praise.”   

W. Somerset Maugham [1874-1965] Of Human Bondage (1915) Chapter 51