August  19, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“We’re drowning in information and starving  for  knowledge.”  

Rutherford D. Rodgers, Librarian, Yale, 

“On the enormous number of books,

 periodicals and other documents 

published each year,” quoted in 

the New York Times, February 25, 1985

August 18, 2019

COMPARISONS

Comparisons, as they say, can crush

and crumble and humble a person -

that is, if we  let them happen to us.

But how can we not, when parents

and siblings, teachers and advertisers -

start to shout out comparisons at us?

Oh,  it’s easy to say, “Be yourself” -

but down deep the others really

don’t want us to be ourselves.

They want us to be remade in the

image and likeness they have

of us. They like to play God.

But ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August  18, 2019 

Thought for today:

 “Gossip is just news running ahead of  itself in a red satin dress.”  

Liz Smith,  Dallas 

Times-Herald, August 3, 1978

SAN  ALFONSO  

RETREAT  HOUSE 

WEST END, NEW JERSEY 

August  17, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Melody is a form of remembrance …. It must have a quality  of  inevitability in our ears.”  

Gian Carlo Menotti, Time, May 1, 1950

PUT  YOUR  TWO  CENTS  IN

Take out your wallet. Put your
two cents in. Buy the lemonade.

Say, “Keep the change, Kid!” 

Watch the kid’s eyes - as well as

the beggar in the doorway. 

Hear the music. Notice what 
happens when people are nice 
to each other in the plaza, 

in traffic and in the parking lot.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August 16, 2019

SATURDAY  WEDDINGS

It’s Friday evening and thousands 

of couples meet to practice for their 

wedding and their marriage on the 

morrow. They meet in church or

chapel - temple or beach - mountain 

or river - and they go through the 

motions practicing  for tomorrow. 

And each time as priest, I pray for 

them - and I think of Grace and
Joseph Mary Plunkett -  who had 

15 minutes of marriage - 15 minutes - 

and I pray that their love - their 

vows - their promises - their dreams 

for  a lifetime last - last - last - last …. 

And then the next day, at their 

wedding ceremony,  I pray 

for them and all the couples 

present that they will realize 

and remember they only have 

so many minutes left, filled 

with all the graces God gives us. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019