January  6,  2021

January 6, 2021

 

EPIPHANY

 
It’s a new year!
 
Looking back on last year,
hopefully there was at least
one rich and enabling epiphany.
 
The Pandemic of 2020
had its messages and learnings:
the power or the poison of the invisible.
 
Or “There are moments we won’t forget
and surprises in the wings or at the back door
and “Who said we are really in control?”
 
It’s a new year!
 
If we were offered three gifts,
what would we choose 
besides gold, frankincense and myrrh.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

January  6,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“The person who knows everything has the most to learn.”

 

Someone whom

I don’t know.

January  5, 2021

FADING  AWAY

 
Is there a Law – one with a name
attached to it, like Decimo’s Law –
that goes like this: “Everything fades.”
 
Signs on red brick walls, paint on cars,
beauty on skin, macadam on roads,
eyes in seeing, memory in brains ….
 
“Everything fades….”  Hopefully the
skeptic, the lover in us, the dreamer
in us, will scream: “No way! I disagree.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

January  5,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“The wind, one brilliant day, called.”

 

Anthony Machado

January  4,  2021

 

MIXTURES

 
I like mixtures, combinations of
this and that: pennies, nickels
dimes and dollars – 4 seasons –
light and shadows on afternoon
floors as they climb half way up
a wall – then someone opens up
a door or a completely different
conversation is begun – memories
of last summer or Christmas when
we were kids and we both laugh
and cry about what life used to be
and we have hopes about what’s
next to come in this mixture called
life – as we try to make it make sense.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

January  4,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

“There are ten church members by inheritance for one by conviction.”

 

Comment: Austin O’Malley

Painting: Vincent Van Gogh

January 3, 2021

 

MIND  THE  GAP

 

I heard about them before
I got to London …. Then
I finally saw them before
getting off or on the London
Underground Tube trains.
 
Obviously acceptance of gaps
is better than denial of gaps.
 
They are there in every comment,
every relationship, every step,
whether we see them or not -
getting off or on the Underground
train to our next moment of life.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021