May 9, 2023

 

LASTING

 

Diamonds – so too rubies – so too

our grandfather’s gold pocket watch ….

They sit there in boxes on our bedroom bureau

to be noticed when we are moving – like

to a nursing home – or when we die.

But what really lasts is a nasty comment,

an affair or the moment we met our spouse.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

May 9, 2023

Quote for Today

"Love's a disease, but curable."

Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) 

English novelist,

Grewe Train (1926)

 May 8, 2023

STEPS OR SLIDE

Do I see life

or do I do life

as steps or a slide?

If it's steps,

I take one step at a time.

If it's a slide,

I'm like everyone else, my dear.

© Reflections, Andy Costello

May 8, 2023

Quote for Today

 "When one is at ease with himself one is  near Tao."

Chuang Tzu [369-286 B.C.] 

 May 7, 2023

DUST

 

What was it – this dust?

My newspaper or my skin?

I had my window open – so

maybe it snook into my house

that way. I don’t know.

It’s a good reminder

we’re all coming or going.

Dust: the great realizer.

We might not be a chip

off the old block – yet

we’re all connected to this

great big wonderful world.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 

May 6, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT

 

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© Reflections, Andy Costello

 May 7, 2023

Quote

"All my experience in public life is in favour of the employment of what the world would call young men instead of old ones."

Robert Peel to Wellington in 1829