March   20,   2020

AN  ORANGE

The cut, the slice ….

the peeling of orange skin ….

Great packaging ….

The slight slippage of juice ….

The pulling apart ….

Then the taste ….

An orange ….

If God has a favorite,

is it the orange?

I  don't know,
but I'm sure it wouldn't
be gold or the shark.

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

March  20,  2020 

Thought  for  Today 

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes  unhappy  marriages.”

  Friedrich  Nietzsche

March 19, 2020

SKATEBOARD

Rolling down Newman Street ….

It’s a great hill for skateboarding ….

Hopping the curve at the bottom ….

Another kid filming the show

all the way down the hill.

We clapped. He bowed.

I walked away wondering,

“Is this narcissism

or kids just having fun?”

Further thought: “Is this

this kid for the rest of his life?”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

March   19,  2020

Thought   for  Today

“Sometimes  people  don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

March 18, 2020

A  MARRIAGE

Yes, there are the big scenes,

the “Where we first met?’

and  “How we met?”

and the decision moments,

the “Yes”,

the wedding,

the honeymoon,

then births and babies –

and the raising of the kids.

Ooops better bring in

the mistakes,

better the recovery

from dumb moves

the hurts, the insensitivity,

the cries of pain and

the cries of passion,

in the recovery and then the knowing

there is more – the best that is yet to come.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

March  18,  2020

Thought  for  Today

“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked  into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.” 

From John Locke,

in An Essay Concerning

Human Understanding

March  17,  2020

IRISH  BLESSING  2020

May you have a wonderful 

St. Patty’s Day today – filled 

with blessings of all sorts - plus: 

  - a big Irish breakfast, 

     - a lunch with good  friends 

  - an afternoon tea and Irish soda bread 

       with cold yellow butter – 

  - and a corn beef dinner, 

       no fat, no gristle and boiled

       mashed potatoes and a pint 

       of deep dark Guinness. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020