November 9, 2019

MOON  RISING

From time to time,

living on the edge

of the Atlantic, I get

to see a moon rise

from up out of the deep

waters - a ball of light.  

People surprise me -

like that at times  - when

up out of their depths,

I see something rising from

their down below - realizing

I was only on their edge.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

November 9, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“The beginning  of  wisdom is to get you a roof.”  

West African Proverb

November 8,  2019

COLOR  CREEP 

Blue waters, black rock, tan sand,

brown dirt, green grass, red mornings ….

Then there are the flowers: yellow,

purple, pink, rose, white, orange ….

Then there are the fish and cattle,

monkeys, birds, cats and dogs ….

Colors, colors, colors everywhere ….

Then there is the creep of color in

everything around us: skin and stuff,

which sun, decay and time change ….

Best advice: laugh when it comes to

color because creep and crawl and 
change is happening before our eyes.
Or as Saint Lawrence the Deacon and
Martyr put it when being burnt to death,
"Turn me over I'm done on this side."

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

November 8, 2019 - 

Thought for today: 

“The real voyage  of  discovery is not in discovering new lands but in seeing with new eyes.”  

Marcel Proust

November 7, 2019

TEARS

A Down Syndrome kid laughing 

and pulling his parents up the 

church steps on a Sunday morning …. 

A first time she ever sang in public 

song - sung by a cousin and we 

were all there clapping and crying ….

A soldier comes home and surprises  

his twin daughters during lunch at  

the local high school - total surprise!  

Our team was a 3 touchdown 

underdog - but this Friday evening 

our team won by 2 touchdowns ….

(c) Andy Costello,  Reflections 2019

November 7, 2019 

Thought for today:

“He  who  returns  from a journey is not the same as the one who left.”  

Chinese proverb.

November 6, 2019

THE   SCENE  OF  A TV  CRIME

I see the detectives looking at

the mess in a scene of a crime.

Sometimes when I don’t do a

thing in my room for a while -

I think of it as the scene of a

crime or a mess of a mess.

At least that’s my latest excuse

for letting it go for 3 more weeks.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019