September 10, 2019

GEOMETRICAL SHAPES

I did okay in geometry - getting to know

all those shapes: squares, circles,

rectangles, pyramids and parallelograms.

But I rather be outside - spotting

the shapes of rocks and leaves,

trees and fields and mountains.

Then footballs, baseballs, basketballs,

golf balls and the great big ocean

on the edge of my world: the Atlantic.

Then came lakes and rivers, ponds

and people, people with noses, bellies,

bodies  more interesting than classroom stuff.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

September  10, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Critics always want to put you in pigeon holes, which can be very uncomfortable unless you happen to be a pigeon.” 

Max Adrian, Quoted 

by Barry Norman, 

The Times, July 4, 1972

CAN'T  ESCAPE? 

TAKE A VIRTUAL TRIP. 

NAME A PLACE .... 

TODAY:  IRELAND. 

DISMISSED

We all know the feeling

of being dismissed.

A yawn, a looking at the

watch or over our shoulder.

Dismissed: and we feel the

feeling, “I guess I’m boring.”

I won’t be missed if I stand

up and leave and close the door.

I’m gone. I guess the secret

is never to dis or dismiss my self.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

September  9, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.”  

Margaret Culkin Banning, 

“Living With Regrets,”  

Readers Digest, October 1958

September 8, 2019

OUTSIDE - THE SPIRIT

I love it when the wind

or the weather catches me

the moment I walk out the door.

Cold, branches of trees shaking,

or soft rain or silent snow falling

everywhere - surround sound.

I love it when the Spirit pounds

my house and I need to get out

and get going - “Move it! Move it!”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

September  8, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Hindsight is an exact science.”  

Guy Bellamy, 

The Sinner’s Congregation, 

Secker and Warburg, 1984