August 6, 2020
Thought for Today
“You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”
Will Rogers
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
August 5, 2020
YELLOW:
BANANA OR BUTTER
Yellow: a good choice for a favorite color.
If one needs to place two volunteers to win
that contest: it would be wise to place a banana
or a rectangle of cold butter before the judges.
Or how about butter on a baked potato or on six spears
of roasted asparagus or on a slice or rye bread toast?
I think those two could beat red as in strawberries
or purple as in plums or blue as in blue birds.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
August 4, 2020
SWISS CHEESE
One chair backwards,
one hat backwards,
three people talking
at a kitchen table, late
at night, swiss cheese,
rye bread, some thin,
really thin, sliced ham,
pickles, 13 grapes, I
counted them, the right food,
counted them, the right food,
the right time, the right
three people, good cold
beer, a conversation
that changed everything –
finally. It was
about time.
It was about longtime friends.
It was about longtime friends.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
August 3, 2020
FETCH
He expected his wife
to be an airlines attendant.
It was as simple as that,
but it took her a while
to figure that out – maybe
because that’s what she
wanted to be as a young girl.
Getting him this
and getting him that:
a pillow, a magazine, a snack.
He: never to give,
always sitting there
ready to receive.
She: never to sit,
always ready to serve.
He: watching her walk
down the aisle.
She: smiling, the last one
to fasten her seat belt
in any turbulence
in the space of their life.
That is till one day she said
to herself, “It’s
time for me to
quit my job and take another flight.”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Monday, August 3, 2020
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