March 8, 2018

SHADOWS

So elusive.

they keep slipping away,

like trying to remember

a name when you’re

almost 80.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018 

March 7,  2018

MY CEILING

Ceiling, you have a plain face

even with your stains

from all these years

living above me.

Ceiling, you’re like a camera,

quietly perched above me,

watching and hearing everything,

unnoticed by me all these years.

Ceiling, now that I know

you know all my secrets,

I got news for you:

I’ll never let you out of this room.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 7.  2018

Thought for today: 

“As long as you know that most men are  like  children  you  know everything.”  

Coco [Gabrielle] Channel, [1883-1979]

March 6, 201

LISTENING

Some people say more by listening

that those who try to say things by

talking - and these talkers only learn

this when they stop talking and listen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 6, 2018

Thought for today: 

“People ask you for criticism, but   they only want praise.”   

W. Somerset Maugham [1874-1965] Of Human Bondage (1915) Chapter 51

March 5, 2018

LENT

Living on borrowed time -

God lent me all these years so far.

Thank You, God. Thank You, God.

I’ve been burnt. There are ashes.

But most of the time - there have been

sunrises after sunsets, blessings and

surprises, mornings after dark nights.

There’s are crosses on the side of

the roads I’ve traveled. But I have

been handed the creed that there is

resurrection at the end of every Lent.

There is Spring at the end of every

winter and green leaves and birds

are waiting for another chance to 

bud and wave, sing and soar.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 5, 2018

Thought for today: 

“Regrets  are  as personal  as fingerprints.”  

Margaret Culkin Banning, “Living With Regrets,”  Readers Digest, October 1958