April   20,  2020 

Thought  for  Today 

“`Broadway  is  a street,’ typed the columnist, `where people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.’”

Carl Sandburg

April  19,  2020

CORONAVIRUS  19

This  coronavirus is a bummer.

People are funny.

A doctor wearing a face mask

said in a TV interview,

“My dad retired and sat down

in a Lazy Boy chair for 10 years

and never left it. Now he’s going

outside and won’t come in.”

This  coronavirus is a bummer.

People are funny.

Then the doctor said, “Hey

if you see my dad walking

around town, tell him to get

home and to take off his

Archie Bunker mask – and

and put on a smile mask.

People are funny.

This  coronavirus is a bummer.

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

April 19, 2020

Thought for Today

“There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.”

Louis L’Amour, Ride the Dark Trail,

Taken from A Trail of Memories,

Compiled by A. L’Amour, page 159

April  18,  2020

YOU WOULD THINK, 

WOULDN’T YOU? 

You would think father/son

issues would be solved by

the time he was divorced,

I mean the father, okay throw

in the son’s divorce as well?

You would think mother/daughter

issues would be solved by now,

but no, expect them to show up

at the time of the daughter’s and

granddaughter’s weddings as well.

You would think God’s existence and

God questions would sort of fall asleep

after college, but many an old, old person –

half kneeling and half sitting in the back

of church still has them a-churning.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

April  18,  2020

Thought  for  Today 

“I am not sending messages with my feet.  All I ever  wanted was not to come up  empty.   I did it for the  dough, and the  old  applause.”

Fred Astaire

April 17, 2020

AGAIN

Our nets were empty.

Again ….

We had fished the whole night 

and caught nothing.... 

Again ….

Then in the morning 

he’s just sitting there 

and asks us if we caught anything. 

“Nothing ….” 

Again....

“Why does he always do that?” 

said one disciple to the other 

Hey …. He saw the paintings.” 

Then he says, 

“Try the other side.” 

We do that as on cue 

and the nets are full to breaking point. 

“Dang it! He always does that!” 

thinks one of the unnamed disciples. 

“Ooops!

Hope that thought isn’t caught in a painting.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Painting by Duccio [1319], Siena
Gospel text: John 21: 1-14

April  17,  2020 

Thought  for  Today 

“A  four-horse chariot cannot overtake the spoken word.”

Tzu Kung

This aphorism

was quoted by

Confucius [c. 500 B.C.]