September 25,  2021

FOUR  SEASONS

It's a blessing to live
in a place that will give
you four seasons.
So no complaining
if that's what you get.
Enjoy the rain, the wind,
the snow and the golden
glow of autumn leaves.

Pause to see the naked

trees of winter - and the

budding trees of spring.

Let your face feel the 

summer rains - and the

sound of boots in the 

wet grass - the flood of 

water when out west 

it's all dry, fire and hot, 

hot heat on the back porch - 

with laziness as is the 

prevailing mood.

September   25,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”

 

Emily Dickinson, Letters

September 24, 2021

PATHS  THROUGH  THE  WOODS

 

As you pass through the woods,
as you path your way through life,
may every twist and turn splash
buckets and buckets and buckets
of green beauty all over you –
with gray blue mist above you –
surrounded by a symphony orchestra 

of birds and gulping and gasping water –
flowing and falling its way through
rocks – crevices – openings. Be 

careful of broken branches. Don't

slide or trip on dark wet earth – 

as you make your way through 

the woods – either on your way 

home or you’re heading down 

to the waters to the sea to see.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

September   24,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Books of poems lying around are handy / For killing persistent irritating flies.”

 

 

Geofrey Grigson,

History of Him, 1951

September 23, 2021

 

GLASS  BOWL 

Sand, tiny twigs
of drift wood, a
few small pieces
of red rock – dirt,

dry, silent,  just
sitting there enclosed for
at least 80 years now –
not doing anything – no -  
not me – no way –
me aging – changing –
differing all through
the years …. thank God –

life never in a glass bowl.

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

September   23,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“It is not surprising that boredom – in human beings so often the mask of fear – is a problem in marriage as it is a problem in prayer.”

 

Monica Furlong,

Christian Uncertainties, 1975