Thursday, August 15, 2019


August  15, 2019 

Thought for today: 



“Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a  second-rate  version of someone else.” 

Judy Garland told that 
to her daughter Liza Minelli. 
Annapolis Capital, B. 5,
 January 1, 2019

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

August 14, 2019





Thought for today: 

“Yosemite Valley, to  me,  is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.”  


Ansel Adams, 
The Portfolios 
of Ansel Adams
NY Graphic Society/ 
Little Brown, 1981

August 14, 2019


A  MOMENT  OF  TIME

Think about it ….

To think about the times 
of one’s life means I can 
stop and look at the times 
I’ve had - sort of like taking 
a photo - and then pointing 
at a picture to ourselves 
and if it’s amazing, to say, 
“Hey look at this picture.” 
Life comes, a moment at a time…. 

Think about it …. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019
Picture: With Gloria Goldberger
a short time before she died of cancer.
She and her husband, Marty,
were great friends of my brother Billy
and his wife, Joanne.


Tuesday, August 13, 2019

August 13, 2019



LAW  OF  GRAVITY

Was there a moment -
when God in the middle of
of a really creative mood - said,
“Wait a minute, wait a minute,
I better add some gravity
to all of this - otherwise too many
things would be crashing into
each other - and it would really
make life too, too complicated”?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August 13, 2019 -


Thought for today:

“When something needs to be painted it lets me know.”  


Luis Frangella,  
Esquire April 1986

Monday, August 12, 2019

August  12,  2019


WALLS

They have their value …. Of course ….
But like a knife or a hammer - they
can also be used to hurt another.

So we have to sit near rocks and
at the edge of differences - and talk
to one another about our questions.

Then - gates might open and fears might
come out from under our rocks and rants 
from out of the cold caves in our minds.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019




Thought for today: 

“If the whole human  race  lay in one grave,  the epitaph on its headstone might  well be; ‘It seemed a good idea at  the time.’”   

Rebecca West, 
New York Times
October 2, 2977