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

November  13, 2021

REVENGE

 
Have you ever thought about
how many things are done out
of revenge – out of pay back?
 
Maybe down deep that’s what
is really going on in street crime
or family or marriage fights.
 
Maybe that’s what we’ve been
doing ever since we were little
kids and we couldn’t get our way.
 
We never learned that we’re not the
only one at the table – in the game -
or in our family. Me's only come as one.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021