Saturday, November 9, 2019


November 9, 2019 

Thought for today: 



“The beginning  of  wisdom is to get you a roof.”  


West African Proverb

Friday, November 8, 2019

November 8,  2019



COLOR  CREEP 

Blue waters, black rock, tan sand,
brown dirt, green grass, red mornings ….
Then there are the flowers: yellow,
purple, pink, rose, white, orange ….
Then there are the fish and cattle,
monkeys, birds, cats and dogs ….
Colors, colors, colors everywhere ….
Then there is the creep of color in
everything around us: skin and stuff,
which sun, decay and time change ….
Best advice: laugh when it comes to
color because creep and crawl and 
change is happening before our eyes.
Or as Saint Lawrence the Deacon and
Martyr put it when being burnt to death,
"Turn me over I'm done on this side."



© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019


November 8, 2019 - 

Thought for today: 


“The real voyage  of  discovery is not in discovering new lands but in seeing with new eyes.”  


Marcel Proust

Thursday, November 7, 2019

November 7, 2019



TEARS

A Down Syndrome kid laughing 
and pulling his parents up the 
church steps on a Sunday morning …. 

A first time she ever sang in public 
song - sung by a cousin and we 
were all there clapping and crying ….

A soldier comes home and surprises  
his twin daughters during lunch at  
the local high school - total surprise!  

Our team was a 3 touchdown 
underdog - but this Friday evening 
our team won by 2 touchdowns ….


(c) Andy Costello,  Reflections 2019







November 7, 2019 

Thought for today:




“He  who  returns  from a journey is not the same as the one who left.”  

Chinese proverb.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

November 6, 2019



THE   SCENE  OF  A TV  CRIME

I see the detectives looking at
the mess in a scene of a crime.

Sometimes when I don’t do a
thing in my room for a while -
I think of it as the scene of a
crime or a mess of a mess.

At least that’s my latest excuse
for letting it go for 3 more weeks.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

November 6, 2019

Thought for today:




“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.”  


Elizabeth Drew