April 13, 2023
Reflection
April 13, 2023
WAITING
FOR THE RAIN
Sometimes that’s all you can do:
wait for the rain. Sometimes it rains.
Sometimes it takes weeks for it to rain.
Sometimes even longer. On the right
day – with the right temperature – it’s
wonderful as the song
goes – to go
outside and walk in the rain –
to let the rain pelt your face –
to stop to see and to feel the feel of rain.
Stick your tongue out and taste the rain.
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
August 12, 2023
Reflection
April 12, 2023
MUST
Don’t like these “musts” –
these “have to’s”. I
rather
face a hundred “want to’s”.
I suppose that’s not the way
life works. Does anyone get
away with only having to do
what they like or enjoy? How
about Kings or Queens? Do
they only eat clams and cake –
if that is what they want for supper?
Yet nobody owns all the roads
that lead to favorite restaurants.
We must learn how to deal with traffic.
Neighbors and strangers get beat up
and robbed on the roads of life
and someone has to stop to help them.
Otherwise we won’t have stories.
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
April 11, 2023
Reflection
April 11, 2023
KITCHEN
SINK
Not everyone has one – but most do.
I look – or better – I notice style.
When I’m putting my used bowls
and plates into a kitchen sink
I’m getting a glimpse into the
personality of another – those
into saving water – those
who
do things immediately
– those
who let plates soak till time
to put supper together. Me?
I don’t have to do the dishes.
Not fair – not a bad deal.
But it makes me think,
“What am I like? What am I like?”
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
April 10,, 2023
April 10, 2023
SIDEWAYS
Sometimes we figure it out
that the best way to approach
another is sideways – that is,
through the back or side door.
We know – just know – this is
the best way to go – to get to
where we want to go – but
going frontways – face to face –
just doesn’t work. Worse:
it’s the worse way to go.
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
DESCRIBE WHAT LOVE IS?
Tell me what love is like?
It's listening.
It's thinking of the other.
It's the cross.
It's putting the others first.
It's caring.
It's forgiving.
It's not taking the seat you want.
It's not always being frustrated.
It's not knowing and always going bonkers about that.
It's giving the uninteresting a call now and then.
It's knowing there is more than me.
(c) Andy Costello, Reflections
