Liv in a Life Well-Lived

Book in Hand: Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh When is it, that moment, when you realize you have inherited the earth? Where is it, that place, which bridges your childhood to that great yawning expanse of forever-old? The house had been restive the past few days. At first, it felt like the same old thing -- My Father wasn't feeling well. My Mother -- as usual -- isn't feeling well either. I have always believed that Money cannot buy happiness, but it can sure lengthen one's peace of mind. My parents haven't had the luxury of peace of mind for a couple of years now. They've been worrying too long about how to pay the bills and where to get extra resources to get by. Luxury is a thing of the past and sacrifice had been a key word in their vocabulary for years. All they have in them is just the faith and the fight now, to keep moving and striving -- to never give up while the going is tough. All we have, on the other hand, is them. I can't lose them. I...

Book in Hand: Birthday of the World pa rin... Song in Mind: The Selecta Ice Cream tune I'm finding myself in a very weird mood nowadays. It's not sad or happy, but more of whimsical. As if everything was just placed here on earth to amuse. I guess that's not so bad, huh? At least I'm not depressed. Bad thing is, I find it hard to take anything seriously when I'm feeling like this. I'm late for work? K lang. Mag-under time kaya ako? Sige lang. Gawin ko daw yung MCIP Operating Cost PR? Alryt. May magagawa ba ako? Chocolate pa kahit bundat na ako? Sure, why not. I am finding it so hard to care about anything. My feet isn't on earth and bahala kayong lahat dyan sa lupa. Belat.

Book in Hand: Birthday of the World by Ursula Le Guin Song in Mind: The Day You Said Goodnight by HALE I promise not to be so morbid today, unlike my last post. It turned out, nobody understood my dream at all. I've asked around and all they can say is --- you're sick, dude. Sure, like I didn't know that. Anyway, I just came from Gateway on a solo sojourn. Went to National Bookstore Main and scoured the Previously Owned Books Level. It took me an hour to look around and all I found is a Book of Spells I knew costs around 800 bucks and which I got for 200 bucks only. Hehe, if anyone asks why I bought it, I'll just say research. Maybe someday I will have the guts to say undefensively ---- BECAUSE I FIND IT DAMN INTERESTING, THAT'S WHY! I can't be breaking a Catholic Dogma because all I'm looking for is an informed decision about who I am in the Catholic sense. I've been a good Catholic girl for most of my life, but there are just some things which feels na...

Book in Hand: Still the Romanov Prophecy (very little time to read with work and all) Song in Mind: That's the Story of (lala), that's the glory of love (hmmm, hmmm...) :) Had the weirdest,most vivid dream and most morbid dream last night. I dreamt my family and I were living in a place surrounded by water. There were some strange man-made ponds / irrigation canals around us and its the only place with water in miles. It was a pretty happy dream at first. I was playing with some kids, we were talking and functioning but I started noticing that a cat got killed (I assumed by our dogs) and lies dead on the carport area. Then, a multitude of cats startedshowing up dead, drowned in the canal / irrigation. Most of them were pretty small and still cute, and that's why it bothered me a lot. I think there were at least five dead in that dream. I also remember this pure white, Chesire-looking cat who was also already submerged but still alive, looking up at us. I remember pausing to...

Book in Hand: The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Barry Song in Mind: As I Lay Me Down to Sleep SO TOTALLY TIRED. Anyway. My real story is that I just got back from a very long business trip which turned out to be 90% leisure for me. Not that it wasn't serious work, it was just that I enjoyed it too much even if it was flat dead exhausting. Armed with a camera, took some pics and some of them turned out okay. Most of the best pics though came from other people's camera because, shemps, kasama ako pag sila ang kumukuha! :) Me fiddling with the camera. Eman taking the shot. FIRST AIRPLANE RIDE I was pretty sure that I wasn't the type to get dizzy in a plane. But at least I'm really very sure about it now. :) It was loads of fun! Like riding a super cool bus that takes you up and above and through the clouds. I swear, it's like a whole new world up there. All puffy shapes and blurry colors... nothing of the harshness we oft see down here. Wished I could stay up there longer....