Saturday, March 21, 2020


 March   21,  2020 

Thought  for  Today  


“Hatred  watches  while  friendship  sleeps.” 


French proverb

Friday, March 20, 2020

March   20,   2020


AN  ORANGE

The cut, the slice ….
the peeling of orange skin ….
Great packaging ….

The slight slippage of juice ….
The pulling apart ….
Then the taste ….

An orange ….
If God has a favorite,
is it the orange?

I  don't know,
but I'm sure it wouldn't
be gold or the shark.


 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

March  20,  2020 




Thought  for  Today 

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes  unhappy  marriages.”


  Friedrich  Nietzsche

Thursday, March 19, 2020

March 19, 2020


SKATEBOARD

Rolling down Newman Street ….
It’s a great hill for skateboarding ….
Hopping the curve at the bottom ….
Another kid filming the show
all the way down the hill.
We clapped. He bowed.
I walked away wondering,
“Is this narcissism
or kids just having fun?”
Further thought: “Is this
this kid for the rest of his life?”



© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020



March   19,  2020


Thought   for  Today

“Sometimes  people  don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”


Friedrich Nietzsche

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

March 18, 2020



A  MARRIAGE


Yes, there are the big scenes,
the “Where we first met?’
and  “How we met?”
and the decision moments,
the “Yes”,
the wedding,
the honeymoon,
then births and babies –
and the raising of the kids.

Ooops better bring in
the mistakes,
better the recovery
from dumb moves
the hurts, the insensitivity,
the cries of pain and
the cries of passion,
in the recovery and then the knowing
there is more – the best that is yet to come.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

March  18,  2020



Thought  for  Today

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked  into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.” 
From John Locke,
in An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding