December   23, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

 “A filing cabinet is a place where things get lost alphabetically.”

December  22, 2020

YOU  NEVER  KNOW

 
You never know who the other person is.
 
You never know what their job is.
 
You never know who their kids are.
 
You never know where they are from.
 
You never know – if they wrote a book.
 
You never know if they ever played BINGO.
 
You never know till you ask them questions.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

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

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.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

December  21, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”   

Friedrich Nietzsche

 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

 December  20, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”  

 

Friedrich Nietzsche