November  14,  2020

 B  STUDENT

 

I’m a B Student.
Have been one all my life.
It’s not a bad place to be.
How about you?
 
It gives you a place to notice
what’s going on – without
having teachers or parents
on your back for bad or for more.
 
It also gives you time for
a lot of other things: just
hanging out and reading
what you want to read.
 
Being a B Student comes
without the two C’s:
comparison and competition
as well as teacher blaming.
 
Okay -  at 85 – I won’t have
any report cards with all A’s
to show my great grandkids.
I’ll only have time to B with them.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 November 14, 2020

 

Thought for Today

“God in his wisdom made the fly

and then forgot to tell us why.”

 

Ogden Nash,

Good Intentions

 

 November 13.  2020

 ME

 

Soggy,  dull,  somber, slushy,
gloomy,  humorless, solemn,
dreary, grim, painful, aloof,
“No - none of these descriptions ….”
 
 
Somewhat,  sometimes, sloppy,
flexible, nodding, limited, tease,
hunch, symbolical, a sponge at times,
“Yes - getting closer – a bit of these ….”

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

November 12, 2020

 

 SNAIL

 

How in the world did the snail

make it this far in the evolution

chain – that it’s still around?

 

It seems so small, so harmless,

so vulnerable, so oblivious to

all its surroundings.

 

And the answer came back almost

immediately from the snail, “It’s obvious.

I’m quiet and I live in a shell.”

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

November 12, 2020

 

Thought for Today

“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.” 

Jean Cocteau

 

 

 November  11,  2020

5,607^th BRICK

 
I lucked out being cemented into a wall
just 10 feet from the top. Lucky me.
 
I have a great view of the street below.
I have no graffiti up here near the top.
 
Yet from time to time I realize I'm missing
out on a lot of up close and personal stuff.
 
Conversations – kids playing ball off my wall –
or old folks out of breath pausing for a hold on.
 
So, in these last few years, I’ve become more 

spiritual - learning the whoever-wherever prayer.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

November  11, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“If you don’t wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, ‘I want to make this movie,” it’ll never get made.’”

 

Sherry Lansing