November       20,  2021

 

 

 

Thought for the Day

 

“After a certain number of years,  our faces become our biographies.”

 

 

Cynthia Ozick 

The Paris Revies

 

 November 20,  2021

Reflection

 November  19,  2021

Reflection

 November 19,  2021

Quote

November       18,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

 

John Muir

November 17, 2021

5 FINGERS

Why 5 fingers
In God’s mind,
why 5 fingers?

In our minds
why 5 fingers?
Why this evolution?
 
Left hand,
right hand….
Why 5 fingers?
 
Pinky and thumb ….
Index finger ….
Those 2 other fingers ….
 
To grab, to hold,
to scratch, to tap,
to sign our name….
 
To watch people
use their hands –
sign language and texting.
 
Amazing, to look
at our hands and
wonder: why 5 fingers? 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

 

 November 17,  2021

 

SOMETIMES ON A PLANE

 
Sometimes alone on a plane
or in some place by ourselves,
people talk to people they
don’t know. They tell them
things they don’t even mention
to close friends or family.
They mention where they
are broken – or how the world
is treating them or where
they need the glue called love.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 November 17, 2021

Quote

"To err is human, to blame it on the other guy is even more human."

Bob Goddard

 November 16, 2021

November  16,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“If you  don’t want anyone to know,  don’t do it.”

Chinese Proverb

November 15, 2015

 

“DOMI”

 
I remember learning the Latin word, “Domi”
in my Second Year of High School.  When
asked where someone was, sometimes I
heard the answer, “Domi!” It meant “Drop out”.
 
After hearing it a dozen times I had it.
I was speaking Latin. I was thinking in Latin.
We ended up with years and years of Latin,
but I only became at home with one word,  “Domi”.
 
Our textbooks for philosophy and theology
were in Latin – but sorry to say I used
translations and dictionaries and guesses -
except for one word I was at home with: “Domi".
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

November       15,  2021 

 

 

Thought for the Day 

“Look out how you use proud words.  When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.”

 

Carl Sandburg,

Slabs of the 

Sunburnt West

November 14, 2021

 

FAVORITE  WORD

 

I once heard an English teacher say
that his favorite word was
“oleomargarine”. Ooo. Interesting.
 
I don’t remember anything else
he taught us, but I do remember,
“What’s your  favorite word?”
 
That happened in a classroom
in the 1950’s. I came up with
many words in the years ever since.
 
bivouac, bazooka, bayou, bayberry,
ballad, backbone, burnish and those
are just words that begin with “b”.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

November       14,  2021 

Thought for the Day

 

“Yesterday I couldn’'t spell engineer.  Now I are one.”

 

Graffito. Quoted

Nigel Rees,

Graffiti 2