August   29,   2020

WELL  CONNECTED

I looked around at my stuff:

A ballpoint pen from Aunt Nora….

A flannel shirt from Mary Joan ….

A classy shirt from Sandy and Jim ….

A suitcase from Maryann and Brent ….

A scarf from Kathy and Steve ....

A shamrock window light catcher from Jan ….

A pair of shoes from Mary ….

A picture of Evelyn and Eileen ….

A corona 19 mask from Maureen ….

A journal book from Herminia and Penny ….

Wow!  I’m well connected.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

August   29,  2020

Thought   for  Today

Ma  Raine:  “The blues help you get out of bed in the morning. You get up knowing you ain’t alone.  There’s something wise in the world.  Something’s been added by that song.  This be an empty world without the blues.  I take that emptiness and try to fill it up with something.”

August  Wilson

 

August  28,  2020

GRAVITY

I spot a pencil on the kitchen  floor.

It fell.

The pitcher of cold water

with ice securely remains  

on the refrigerator shelf

because of gravity.

Likewise the liverwurst and cheese ….

Gravity along with plenty of

water are essential to life on

this earth.

The calendar on the kitchen wall

tells me what day and month and year it is.

Slowly my posture and my body

tell me I’m slowly sinking back

down to earth.

I’ll drink to that – a cold glass of

water – remaining in the glass –

for now - gravity. Time and eternity.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 August  28, 2020

Thought  for  Today 

“God loves each of us as if there was only one of us.”

Augustine

How could anyone do that?

You’d have to be God.

 

WE'LL  ALWAYS  HAVE  CHARTRES

Many people who have seen the movie, Casablanca, have said for the rest of their lives, "We'll always have Paris."

Well, if you ever get to Paris - take the train - of if you have a rent-a-car - to Chartres - and you'll always have that town and cathedral - but especially the stained glass windows  - in your mind's eye for the rest of your life. 

August 27, 2020

STAINED  GLASS  EYES

Sometimes you have to listen to me,

or better:  to watch me, to see what

kind of a mood I’m in today. Blue, dark

blue – then again sometimes everyone

is doing better than me, so I’m green

with envy – or when things get better,

I’m yellow - cold butter yellow -  bright

and alive for everything you want to

spread on my daily bread – and then

when I’m down, I’m brown, grey,

or red with hurt – kind of moody, eh?

But that’s what stained glass windows

can do to me when I drop into a grey

stone church on a quiet afternoon.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

August  27,  2020 

Thought  for  Today 

 

“Summer  afternoon –  summer afternoon;

to me those have been

the two most beautiful words

in the English language.”

Henry James
Painting: Summer
Afternoon by 
Norico DeWitt