April 14, 2023

Reflection

April 14, 2023

HARBOR

 

Make sure you pause whenever you are

In a harbor. Look around. Study the scene.

It’s the place of metaphor and image. It’s

different than so many other places.  It’s

all about giving and receiving – life.  It’s

all about arrivals and departures.  It’s

the place of many more stories than

airports – going way, way back into history.

The Illiad and the Odyssey – Paul’s journeys….

Water and the sea = the liquid meandering

of so many lives that have gone before us.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 

 April 14, 2023

Quote For Today

"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for."

Arthur Miller,

After the Fall (1964) act 2

 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 13, 2023

Quote for Today

"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to rest."

Arthur Miller 

"Shadows of the Gods" 

in Harper's Magazine, August 1958

 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

 

 August 12, 2023

Quote for Today

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

William Shakespeare

 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