November 29, 2020
Thought
for Today
“An optimist laughs to forget; the pessimist forgets to laugh.”
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Saturday, November 28, 2020
November 28,, 2020
PLANTING AND PICKING FRUIT
He spent six months buying and then
planting cherry, apple, pear and plum
trees – all around the property he had
recently bought – after coming home
from 5 long years fighting in a foreign land.
It was what kept him alive in battle and in
terror – seeing trees growing, blossoming,
reaching for the blue skies – seeing pies
and jams and hands holding delicious
cherries, apples, pears and plums.
planting cherry, apple, pear and plum
trees – all around the property he had
recently bought – after coming home
from 5 long years fighting in a foreign land.
terror – seeing trees growing, blossoming,
reaching for the blue skies – seeing pies
and jams and hands holding delicious
cherries, apples, pears and plums.
Life: an orchard, a wife and kids, family
at the kitchen table, at work, with dirt on
hands and the scent of fruit on flannel
shirts and blue jeans – and God enough to
wipe away the scent of those he killed in battle.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Friday, November 27, 2020
November 27, 2020
COULDN’T TELL A JOKE
It happened to him three times.
He’d tell a joke and nobody laughed.
And then there was silence.
Then one of those who heard it,
told it and got a good laugh – and
he was in the crowd who heard it.
It happened again a second time
and then again, a third time – and both
times it crushed and mushed him.
While driving home alone that night
he mumbled to himself: “This has
been happening to me all my life.”
It happened to him in high school.
He got a C – for a story that took
him two whole weeks to write.
Another kid heard him tell it to
another kid on the bus. That kid
sort of rewrote it and got an A +.
Who said, “Life is fair"?
He was telling this to his grandfather
who said, “There were 3 crucifixions
that day – not just Jesus.”
Years later he told someone that in
another context and someone overheard
him and told him, “That was a great insight.”
He’d tell a joke and nobody laughed.
And then there was silence.
told it and got a good laugh – and
he was in the crowd who heard it.
and then again, a third time – and both
times it crushed and mushed him.
he mumbled to himself: “This has
been happening to me all my life.”
He got a C – for a story that took
him two whole weeks to write.
another kid on the bus. That kid
sort of rewrote it and got an A +.
who said, “There were 3 crucifixions
that day – not just Jesus.”
another context and someone overheard
him and told him, “That was a great insight.”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2020
November 26, 2020
GETTING WHAT WE WANT –
WANTING WHAT WE GET
Sometimes we want what we
want and get what we want.
And sometimes we don’t.
And sometimes when we get
what we want – we find out we
really didn’t want what we got.
And then we whine and protest
till we get rid of want we wanted.
And then we realize we really
wanted what we got rid of.
And sometimes – we luck out
and get back what we got rid of
And sometimes we don’t.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
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