July  23,   2020

FAIR

Who said, “Life is fair”?

Yet it seems that’s the assumption

we’re all born with – or given – or have.

You hear kids saying it all the time.

“Hey, that’s not fair!”  "unfair!"

People jump ahead of each other

on lines all the time – or they try.

“I got one scoop of ice cream and it

was delicious till I saw you got two.”

“She got the lead in the play

and I got to give out the programs.”

“They just built this fire house

just down the street from us.”

“Not fair.  Lefties can get to first base

a step quicker than righties ever time.”

“Jesus Christ, not fair. My birthday

is on December 25^th.  Not fair.”

Who said, “Life is fair”?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July   23,  2020

Thought   for  Today

“There  was  a  reviewer a while back who wrote that my  pictures didn’t have any  beginning or any end.  He didn’t mean it  as  a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment.”  

Jackson Pollock [1912-1956]   

Francis V. O’Connor, 

Jackson Pollock [1967]

July   22,   2020

DUMB

Sometimes we do the stupid thing –

like not taking care of the right front

tire – till it’s too late and it goes flat -

some 256 miles away from home.

To self-destruct – that’s something

we humans do – and too, too often.

We eat too much. We say the wrong

thing. Then we blurt out, “Dumb!”

To walk in the light – seems to appear

only in church services and prayers –

not in real life. To be smart, to get new

tires: now would trigger us to do that?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July   22,  2020

Thought   for   Today

“The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.”  

Henry  Moore, 

in Listener, 

August 18,  1937

July 21,  2020

Thought for Today

“Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.”  

Letitia Elizabeth Landon 

[1802-38] English writer, 

in The Poor.
Potato Eaters by Van Gogh

July   21,   2020

LADDER

At times I wish I had a ladder, 

to climb up and see tomorrow – 

to see the other side of where 

I'm headed – but I don’t. Nope. 

Nope. I don’t – so there is only 

today – and just the now of now. 

And I have found out I won’t  even 

know the now of now till tomorrow. 

And that's a maybe, maybe ....

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

July   20,  2020

APPOINTMENT  WITH  DISAPPOINTMENT

Does every desire have a disappointment

built into it? Now that’s a lifetime question.

I enjoyed my  meal. It was in a dark red

restaurant – but his steak was over cooked.

It was a good marriage – certainly better

than my first – but wow could she nitpick.  

The novel – good story – real characters –

but I figured out the ending on page 101.

Do I say I was looking for God in every desire,

but if I did, would you be quite disappointed?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020