MY FEET ARE ITCHING AGAIN

The School of Life I've to get back to.
Wish me luck!

My Lakbayan grade is B+!

How much of the Philippines have you visited? Find out at Lakbayan!
It a neat site. Try and see where've you've been or should go to next.
Thanks Mr. Eugene :)

Created by Eugene Villar.

MY BEACHY HEART GREETS YOU






its been a while
and being here is like relearning first baby steps
but yes
as i said to a friend
"good to be here"
still good to be around

and as if the universe is just as happy
yesterday I had this resolution:

"im done with complaining..
this year, 2+0+0+8 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1 = karmic
what i plant
i will harvest
so now's the day to put out good thoughts
had enough time for the sad stuff
so a good Tuesday, it is"

A GOOD YEAR IT IS!!!!


and before the day ended
i heard news my sister got a job abroad
yes sad that she has to move
but i think she's onto an adventure

and another thought:
"everybody's moving someplace new..
and i'm choosing not to take it against me
that i am not
NOT YET, that is...

NEIL GAIMAN SAID WHAT?

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”


And it cracked me up. In between tears.

MIDNIGHT



Wish I could be as calm as her.
And get past the eleventh hour
of long-overdrawn work.


i'm forever grateful to Bani for his inspiring work

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http://rabani-naturalart.buzznet.com/user/

GIVING BIRTH TO A CHRISTMAS SOUL



Some major work for the office finally got launched last December 21. It is a collection of 12 songs about our sea and the people who live and love with it. Filipino friends and fellow environmental advocates led by Joey Ayala were instrumental in bringing this project to fruition, while me and my teammates of information officers felt like obgynes or in more third-world context, like barrio midwives that just had to be there at the right place at the right moment.

And what Beauty we now cradle in our midst.

Allow me to say thank you by sharing this labor of love:
MGA AWIT NG MAGDARAGAT (SONGS OF THE FISHERMAN)

Lyrics from one of the core songs I loosely translated.



SANTWARYO
Lyrics by Joey Ayala
Music by Cynthia Alexander


Kung korales ay sing-hugis
Ng pag-asa
At ang buhay ay sing-kulay
Ng isda

Saan pa nga ba
Magtatagpo ang dalawa
- buhay at pag-asa

Kung ang lambat na umaapaw ay
Sagana
Sa biyaya ng likas
Na pagsinta

Saan pa nga ba
Sisilong at magdaragsa
- buhay at biyaya

Santwaryo -- Sa dagat
Santwaryo -- Sa puso
Santwaryo
Ng buhay at pag-asa

Santwaryo -- Ingatan
Santwaryo -- Tanuran
Santwaryo
Ng buhay at pag-asa


SANCTUARY

If corals are shaped
Like hope
And life is as colorful
As fish

Where else
Will both meet
-- life and hope

If an overflowing net is
Rich
With the grace of true
Love

Where else
Will take shelter and go in abundance
-- life and grace

Sanctuary -- In the sea
Sanctuary -- In the heart
Sanctuary
Of life and hope

Sanctuary -- care for
Sanctuary -- look after
Sanctuary
Of life and hope


Yes, it is Christmas however we feel or think, may we find it so.

REDISCOVERING THOMAS MERTON

I met Thomas Merton when I was in college more than 15 years ago while working on my thesis. I no longer remember the book that introduced me to him but the affinity I felt for his ideas and his values is of a kindred nature. Contemplative life, spirituality, ecumenism, East-West relations, personal and corporate inner work, peace, and social justice are what he promoted as the center established in his memory and works puts it.

He fell in love with Asia (as I would like to believe talks then that he wanted to continue his monastic life on its grounds). Tragically however, on that last trip of his in 1968, he died, still a man of peace. And if conspiracy theories are to be believed he died because of his works that have disturbed men of war. But as I've heard it told of people like him, his death does not define the kind of person that he was and the quality of life that he created wherever he was led.

His is a pilgrim soul that reflects back the worth of a person through the eyes of his or her Beloved. I am priveleged to have met such a human being. The life that he has given up for another, sifted, kneaded, blessed and broken -- this is what I now partake of. Today, I walk with him again. What a joy it is to know that it is another accompanied walk to Emmaus and dinner with the One who makes our hearts burn.





"I have articulately resisted attempts to have myself classified as an 'inspirational writer'. But if I have written about interracial justice, or thermonuclear weapons, it is because these issues are terribly relevant to one great truth: that man is called to live as a child of God. Man must respond to this call to live in peace with all his brothers and sisters in the One Christ."



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Photos and quote source: The Thomas Merton Center
http://www.merton.org/

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INSPIRATION

Yeah so I like dancing in fields... so what?

As this virtual friend puts it. 21, talented stock photographer, beautiful face, big big heart, woman-child, model citizen of the world. Funny how you can say so much from a person's images. Or just me with my rose-colored glasses.


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