December 22, 2020
Thought
for Today
“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if
one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Monday, December 21, 2020
December 21, 2020
THE BIG PICTURE
2020 wasn’t all bad!
Tonight and these nights
near Christmas – Jupiter
and Saturn – are within 0.1
degrees to each other.
Yet they are 450 million miles apart.
The last time this happened
was 800 years ago and the next
time is going to be 2080. Not bad,
but I won’t be alive in 2080.
So tonight - obviously - I was out
there looking into the southwest sky.
Ugh! All was cloudy. All was gray.
Yet I knew from what I read, like life,
what I wasn’t seeing was right there.
Tonight and these nights
near Christmas – Jupiter
and Saturn – are within 0.1
degrees to each other.
The last time this happened
was 800 years ago and the next
time is going to be 2080. Not bad,
but I won’t be alive in 2080.
there looking into the southwest sky.
Ugh! All was cloudy. All was gray.
Yet I knew from what I read, like life,
what I wasn’t seeing was right there.
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2020
Sunday, December 20, 2020
December 20, 2020
SILENCE
The space after a comment -
sometimes it lingers for a second –
sometimes for the whole day or life.
It could be a compliment or
it could be a hurt – that rubs
us like a rasp or # 10 sandpaper.
The intent – now that is the question -
or the rub as Shakespeare puts it –
the why he or she said what they said.
The big silence is when we don’t talk
to each other about what happened and
end up never really knowing what happened.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Saturday, December 19, 2020
December 19, 2020
EAT
What do tiny spiders eat –
and mites and invisible
creatures who are only
known to microscopes?
Do they feel it when I step
on them in the fields or on
the floor or sidewalk or when
I sit on them in church benches?
Evidently, there’s a lot more
going on that I’ll ever know –
how I sit on others or step on
their self-respect or self-image.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
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