April  26,  2021

CONSEQUENCES

 
We hear echoes,
even when we seem
to be deaf to them ….

We hear them,
even when we forget
there are consequences,
and we get hit with

the reality of repercussion.

Realities trigger realities.

We know that some words 

are made of razor blades or 

have been left to marinate

in the dark mud of earth,

the dark dirt of death. 

Hopefully we discover the MORE:

there is redemption and hope

and not just the dark stuff.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

April 26,  2021

Thought for the Day

 

“Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.” 

 

Burton Hillis

 April  25,  2021

 

NOT SUPPOSED TO

 

There are lots of not supposed to
places we’re told to avoid:
the other lanes on the highway,
the places without the lights.

Good if they are dangerous.
Bad if there are places where
we can make things better
and bring about a clean up.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

April  25,  2021

Thought for the Day

 

“Rule No. 1 is never lose money. Rule No. 2 is never forget Rule No. 1.”

 

Warren Buffet

April  24, 2021

 

A PIECE OF PAPER

A piece of paper

got splashed down on.

It self soaked

on the floor.

Overweight

with water.

In time it dried up

and blew away.

I never did read

what you wrote to me.

Sorry.

Do you give second chances?

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 April 24,  2021

Thought for today

"Perhaps, after all, poetry ... is a particular  sort of ignorance.  And that is much harder to learn than knowing."

Jaan Karpinski, 

Through the Forest, 1996

April  23,  2021

THE   KEY

 
We lose our keys.

That happens from time to time.

But the key we’re looking for
is often the other’s key.

It’s the key to their questions.

What are they looking for?

What’s in their top drawer?

Once I get the key to their questions,
then, do I have the key to them?

Maybe ….

But maybe I simply have to ask them.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021