together...

They Walk … Together

The early morning mist rises all around them
Their souls alight; swirling with the breeze
A graceful dance; they walk together
Her hand in his; feelings linger
He slowly breathes her in
She follows willingly
It is their destiny
A shared path
Soul mates
Together

Artist: Leonid Afremov; Poet: Mike Evans

music is a mist sprinkled forever

it is sometimes an angelic whisper
that you hear in your dreams
it is sometimes the sound of the
raindrops falling into your garden
it is sometimes the toss of the waves
at that far distant beach
or the ruffle of the wind as they
pass through in between the leaves
or the heart throbs of many humans
as they go about their daily lives

music is a language and a key
that may close or open a heart
music is very important
for music is a mist
that is sprinkled forever
in our path
you hear it every day
at the moment you wake up
till the moment you sleep at night...

the crab apple tree

it looked like a true apple but it is really not. it is an ornamental tree. the blooms in spring are gorgeous! its fruit is eaten by deers and birds and can be made into jellies for human consumption as well.

in the inner garden where roses bloom...

how would you end a blog...that is the nagging question. i've been bothered by it since the very start of this on line activity. i'll let the blog ends itself, hows that...this blog can even record me singing, ranting, complaining, posing and doing stuffs like writing lots of string of words in my own way. call that poetry? but it's just piles and piles of words re-arranged here and there whatever mood i am in at that day. so here goes, there goes and that's that :> that is saint therese at the inner garden er sanctuarium of the shrine of the little flower church taken on cruise day, last saturday. and i love pilita. here i am trying hard to sing one of her song in visaya pa ha that i've never spoken before. tsk! what a sorry voice. 3x na take and still it is with mistakes. oh well! and 300 for kris, 20 for james...that is the right moolah division, if i'm asked and if mr. yap wants more then that is not right...he never made this lady happy, so he is not entitled to more money kasi it's kris pawis naman diba? siguro never na naisip ni mr. basketball na kris can let him go for he thought that she loved him to death as well, right? but wrong, ms. aquino is no bobo, i knew that a long time ago...if you're not happy it's time to bail out not unless you have a very valid reason not to do so :) i know i am a filipino born person but i do kinda sort of think unfilipino sometimes :) maybe because of the environment i am in and maybe because my mind shuffles and coughs up the more likely better solution or better route, laughs, as if you cared :?




and how would you end a relationship where trust is broken? here, it is by divorce as its twin annulment in the philippines. the tiger and his wife did it. their divorce is now final. elin woods did the right thing :) as i've said before if someone did it once the probability is high that he'll do it again. love is precious, we need to take care of it like a plant for it to grow and stay alive or else it will die... if you do something there are consequences as the tiger's golf performance is also going down the drain like his marriage had ...and he could only blame himself...wow, sad that some deranged people would take innocent civilians as hostages to push their agendas. and as we know more likely than not it won't have positive results...good job for venus for making it as the 4th runner up in that ms. universe pageant :)

and on air now is one of newell oler's great piano pieces, help me make it through the night, a favorite tune as well similar to spanish romance. i truly love everything spanish, my beautiful virgin mary look alike benefactor is espanol...but, also this tune is titled, "forbidden games" that kiss like an infidel, sort of like joke, laughs. no kidding, this song is hauntingly and heartbrokenly beautiful...if there is a description like that...my kind of songs for i go for the feeling and the heavy dramas, laughs. i just like them...for life is like a song...and we needed divine help most of the times in our lives to be able to live truly in the christian way :)

***life is like a song***

the raven is even singing a hauntingly
sad lullaby since you've said goodbye
the moon had lost its shine
since your face i can no longer touch
the night became so much longer
when you bid farewell and walked out in my life
the sun won't shine again in my eyes
for you're no longer here in my arms

you've left and you've torn my heart apart
you've died and now i only have
these dried dead roses in my hands
the shadows, the dark are now at my skies
for love had left and never ever to come back
as the stairs are left in disrepair
as the ladders are broken and tired...

love is a sham, love is you, love has died and never ever to be revived...
*** *** ***

A story to live by...Life in a Nutshell... thanks to Mr. Ricardo F. Lo's article at Philstar :)

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, “If I could only see the world, I will marry you.”

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

He asked her, “Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?”

The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn’t expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: “Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.”

(Note: Moral of the story? Read on.)

This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.

Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.

Life is a gift.

Today, before you say an unkind word— Think of someone who can’t speak.

Before you complain about the taste of your food —Think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Before you complain about your husband or wife—Think of someone who’s crying out to GOD for a companion.

Today, before you complain about life—Think of someone who died too early on this earth.

Before you complain about your children—Think of someone who desires children but they’re barren.

Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn’t clean or sweep—Think of the people who are living in the streets.

Before whining about the distance you drive—Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.

And when you are tired and complain about your job—Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job.

But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another—Remember that not one of us is without sin.

And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down—Put a smile on your face and think: you’re alive and still around...

SMILE even only for awhile...(^&*)... remember now life is like a song...(^_~)...it has a beginning and an end, it is sad and happy in between...and maybe this is the right time to end a blog. hmn, if ever the music with different tunes still continues...the end after all is the beginning of another chapter in our lives and we call that turning a new page, metaphorically speaking of course. although randomly posting is another option, we'll see...

the buck stops here...

there will always be the first time to feel the heat... when you have a head of a state, then you have somebody to blame about things that went sour in your part of the world. death even only one IF it could have been prevented? is too many esp. if your country will be a prime time news producer at CNN as well so therefore things that have gone awry is broadcasted all through out the whole universe, manned on unmanned. now here comes again the IF word. it should be vanished in the dictionary for it will just make you dream of things that can't or won't happen for these are just things dangling in your mind, like dancing possibilities which can or never will be a reality, so ergo a waste of your brain cells my friend. the best recourse is to admit that mistakes were made in handling this hostage situation and pay some compensation to the families after giving them a heartfelt sorry and apology. then MAKE SURE that it will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. it should be a hard lesson learned for the government and do whatever it takes to make sure that these lives did not die in vain...life is precious, sometimes it is taken away so that we might learn from it and made wiser...the buck stops here... and my guess is that  pres. noy is just as miserable as those families who will have to suffer the loss of their love ones for that is intense pain that won't go away forever. love lost is a chip or a part of us lost or gone and life will never ever be the same again. to these families we could only offer our prayers that God may lift them up in these hard and trying times...for God heals all our wounds as God renews our hearts every moment of every single day and all we have to do is trust and believe in Him :>

IF...

if you were in my shoes what would you do. would you be able to lick the wound and hope it will heal for you. would you be able to open the windows and let the nasty air pass through. would you eat that piece of cake which you knew it's not good for you. what would you do? ...the thing is these are all IFs, like the thought of planning our tomorrows which we don't even own. just as many are not happy with Venus' answer to that tricky question in that pageant, it is done. just think that it was her show and that she did her best and gave her best, let's be happy with that. it wasn't meant to be so that was it. IF is really a tricky word, for IF is not for us it is for her to answer that question...i know some people are just too critical of her but again it is her question to answer and not our's. too bad that you thought that she could have done better or worst that they could have done better which brings us again to the word IF...like IF they were her, but sadly they don't have that crown to represent the Phil. in this event for she had...yes, IF...i don't think it is really right to entertain this IF word because it is similar to something that is just blowing in the wind, meaning nothing of significance or of importance nothing concrete. it is purely an illusion or an imagination...hmn, i wonder (IF)...(^_~)... she could have answered this way...we are all humans, we make mistakes and to own them or to acknowledge them is a very good start. but for now my mistakes are just nil i would say and not worth mentioning them, like forgetting to admit that i made mistakes and apologize for them, laughs :) although it maybe different 10 or 20 years from now. by that time God willing i have traveled far and wide, i have experienced more pains and happiness and maybe by then i must have encountered and made some significant blunders in my life that i will deeply regret later. so to admit, to accept, to apologize and to make amends esp. to people that i've hurt if that will be the case, how's that :)

Cruisin' Time in the USA by Tom Lazaros

it's raining on the classic cars' parade today. time for the annual Woodward Dream Cruise where car aficionados all over the U.S. come and display their classic car collections by cruising Woodward Avenue, here in the suburbs of Detroit, the motor city... J.C. was saying, i'd like to bring the Philippine jeepney here mom, laughs...and drive it on this parade as well. of all the days past it was sunny except today, wow, i hope i can get some good shots to post later :) cruisin' in your Chevrolet...now i remember my first car, a Camaro Chevrolet or Chevy made by GM, one of their sports car whom they stopped production but recently revived or reproduced them again :>

too many pics of cars to upload and it is making me lazy. it is nice looking at them but who can afford such luxury of owning these classics? i know the CEO's of those 40,000 something manufacturing companies that moved to China for cheap labor causing 10-12 million americans unemployed so they can't pay their mortgages and ending up losing their homes to foreclosures and the real reason for the economic down turn here and all over the world for they invested heavily on the real estate market the american way. you can't seem to notice it for people are still cruising dreamily with their classic cars. maybe they also popped up some champagne and celebrate it with their friends in background pink, laughs, before they started their drives. oh well. hmn, now if you are invited to be included in an art festival where God, or Jesus is the center of their universe then that is definitely a trick to change your stream of thought. they were hoping perhaps that you gonna change your style which i've read somewhere that ain't gonna happen. or they're trying to grab you out from the demons? hmn, then you are in a dilemma. so watch your steps for either you'll be a winner or a loser :) to be or not to be that is the question and yes that is a borrowed line somewhere...

wow, kris do not want to be a doormat like susan, loi and lani that's why she is making james the past like her two exes? i read that somewhere. a doormat, that is not nice. but really now they are just tolerant and maybe love their hubbies to death, laughs. love is blind? that is nonsense. if your husband wants another woman get out of the way, right? give him his happiness and leave or set him free as simple as that. but of course that is my take. love and respect go hand in hand. if one is lost the door is closed...plain and simple :)again life is but once so you can't fail er you must not fail anybody. although people change as the passing of time so use divorce or annulment philippine style. please don't be a martyr in torturing yourself not unless there is a very valid reason for it :) your own happiness and your own well being is at stake...