A heart that’s broke is a heart that’s been loved… Musing about this new song I heard for the first time today. I guess it is official, motherhood made me soft, allowing a poignant song to reduce me to tears {wait, I have been tearing up on beautiful songs ever since I can remember}. The …
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Remembering Our Dearly Departed Today
It is our 7th year of observing All Saints’ Day without my parents and we shall be spending the day {mostly the later part of it till the night} at their resting place at the memorial. Very different from its usual peace and solemnity, our local memorial will be filled with people milling about, excited noise and …
happy 76th birthday ‘Pa!
I remember you as a stickler to neatness + cleanliness + I would often think that you were a slave driver, trying to boss everyone around to do your biddings: sweep the floor, keep the house tidy, keep everything neat + orderly. It was probably no surprise that I am turning into the same person …
happy 114th independence day
Happy 114th Philippine Independence Day everyone! I remember my Papa the most on occasions like this. Weeks before the celebration, he will busy himself hoisting up the Philippine Flag at home + teaching us a thing or two about our rich, colorful history. Most of what I learned + know about patriotism + nationalism, I …
Papa’s 5th Death Anniversary
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, no birth, no identity, form – no object of the world, nor life, nor any visible things; the body, sluggish, aged, cold, – the embers left, shall duly flame again. ~ Walt Whitman Today marks my father’s 5th death anniversary. I cannot believe that it has been …
when sahmone speaks #15: what I love about my father
If there’s one trait of your father that you’ve always loved, what is that? My father is a hard-working man, apart from being the best provider (of course, he just can’t provide us with every whim, but he made sure that all our needs are provided for, including our wants if we are lucky ;)). …