July   6,   2020

WORK IN PROGRESS

Oh yes, that’s me

and hopefully everyone.

Don’t stop because

traffic is stuck ahead.

Laugh! There is always

construction ahead.

Okay. Some people

don’t believe in evolution.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July   6,  2020

Blame!  -  Thought   for  Today

“Her whole life was governed by her desire not to be blamed, so she never did anything, and got blamed for that."

Gerald Brenan,

Thoughts in a Dry Season, 1979

July  5,  2020

WHO KNOWS? 

THIS JUST MIGHT BE 

ANOTHER GOOD  FRIDAY. 

Stones -

steps –

street -

taking each for granted –

solid security –

bottom line – the ground

every time –

I fall -

but not

a metaphor for me ….

Me?

So if your need me  -

walk with me

but know that I’m stuck

with this cross as well -

but trust me –

just ahead -

there will be some Simon,

some  Veronica and I’m sure

my mother – she’s

always in the crowd

along the way.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Painting:  Tissot

July  5,  2020

Thought  for  Today 

“One  needs a certain time to realise that the faces in  the Italian primitives are  those one meets daily on the streets.  We  have lost the habit of seeing what is  really important in a  face.” 

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

July  4,  2020

  

“HURRY”

"Hurry." I'm filled with too much hurry.

“Hurry …. Hurry .…”  is my inner sound.

Sometimes I add an “up” – as in “Hurry up!”

“Hurry …. Hurry….”  I keep watching my watch –

which doesn’t seem to go faster…. “Faster!”

I hear an ambulance getting closer. Good!

“Hurry!”  as I inwardly scream.  It gets past

me as I assume it’s heading for whatever

is causing this traffic jam – on this road

that is blocked. I sit back in my stopped

car – close my eyes. I had put my car

in park.  Traffic will start flowing again.

It always does. I’ve been in dozens of

traffic stoppings – dozens of conversation

jams – supermarket check-out wrong

choices. I breathe. I meditate. I let go of

this need - this scream to “Hurry – hurry up!”  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July   4,   2020

Thought  for  Today

 “The one thing to do is to do nothing.  Wait …  You will find that you survive humiliation and  that’s  an experience of incalculable value.”  

T. S.  Eliot, 

The Cocktail Party, 1949

July   3,    2020

PAST

My past haunts my future ….

Can’t shake it off. It’s like

a sliver  of old scotch tape –

stuck to my left hand –

which my right hand doesn’t

know what it’s doing.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020