the end of the road

as i look at that dark blue sky
the rain began to pour
as i start to force my feet to walk
the tears began to roll
as i remember the past
the happy part where you once belong
my hands are reaching out once more
where all could have gone wrong

life is at fault
it is timed
it will end
like the end of the road...

dear dad how could it went that way
that you've left us all so early
dear dad why is it so agonizing
still to remember you this way

the end of the road where all of us must go
the end of the road where humans will end
and the spirit will take it all away
the end of the road is death
and all of us will meet it someday
sooner or later
today or tomorrow
or still that far away

the end of the road
it will come for us one day
and it will take us all unwillingly
the end of the road
unthinkable for the young
but it will happen
as proven by life of today
and of yesterday...

a solemn all soul's and all saints' day to the dead celebrated by the living who will all die someday...the graveyard art is by john singer sargent...

flowers are smile bringers...

hydreangeas in pinks and semi-reds, yellow mums, pink roses and a huge rounded green ornamental cabbage, pretty blooms...courtesy of the english garden, an award winning garden shop or store. i always would want to post happy moments and happy times, like me thinking about flowers and gardens :) life is a smile, only if we wanted it to be...

as we think of christmas

it is not for long that the best part of the year will be here for all us to enjoy and to savor once again. how do we really celebrate it. how can we capture its true spirit. is it by thinking of just us, our love ones and our friends. is it just by thinking of giving expensive gifts and receiving it. is it just by racing to the malls and shopping the best for all that we can give to those that we care about. how can we capture the true spirit of christmas. something to think about...as elvis and sara belt out their silent night's duet...music, ah, music, you are really the magic that can capture and can hypnotize a man's spirit...we pause, we stop on whatever we are doing just to listen to you...we smile, we frown, we accept you or we put you aside meaning we cover our ears if we don't like you. but just the same you are an attention grabber, maybe for a short while, for the longest or for eternity...music you are that powerful and you don't even know it...

a wall art from a catholic church in england...superb, although it needed some color and touch ups now :)

the perfect music

for me at least... the scenery, the lady, the beach, a favorite place and life...the one memorable tune i've heard then at college is now back to entertain me :)...beautifully played and executed by this lady artist. i've never heard one song that is hauntingly and deeply magical and truly mesmerizing. it makes me pause for a long while while listening to this sad and poignant melody...i am for joyful music but sometimes to remember the nights or darkness in our lives we must also listen to the opposite for balance and for reality checks...

beautiful autumn...

is one of the nice perks you'll have living here in the states, a god given gift, i think so :) it's an award from God... like when you go on vacation somewhere solemn and hot, ex. the holy city  and the vatican city my dream places to go to in the future, see i am poor so i haven't been in these places :) like an art that you admire to the max...like beautiful thoughts that come from beautiful minds, never rotten, always humble and always nice and that is not being cheap, like thinking cheap and acting cheap or judging other people cheaply which you don't even know for sure if you are right...cheap shots from cheap minds sad to say...

music in guitars

hmn, maybe the long nail helped. bravo! for his guitar strings are really rollin' :>

now let's hear and watch some romantic music in guitar...(^_~)...titled spanish romance, the better title, laughs.



but...this lady performed er gave the music its flair :> love it!!! guitar music for your "b"eautiful "r"ose" guys :) this piece is truly very romantic, another bravo! :) wow, guitars... true, live and full guitars are awfully inspiring...



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miracle happens :) as the phoenix capsule rises...

...in Camp Hope at San Jose (St. Joseph) copper and mining company in Santiago, Chile. these miners were trapped and now free. words aren't just enough to describe this event, for so many have died who were in the same predicament. the world is watching and thankful for this miracle...God is really good...

with the help of NASA and American guidance and its tech support, the rescue effort now underway is short of amazing. it is the same company and equipment that rescued some trapped American miners awhile back...1,500 to 2,000 journalists are present and on hand to record and broadcast this to the whole world. a win of hope, a win for teamwork and a win for the test of man's endurance in life's travails and trials. these miners were lucky for it was during their break time and they were in this safe place eating when the mine collapsed. they were alive for 17 days after they were located when one of them attached a note in one of these drill bits trying to find them writing to the rescuers in a piece paper that they are still alive...WOW!!!

moonlighting

"another day another dollar" music by Wynn Stewart...

dollar poor

the pocket has holes
it can't sustain and hold a coin
the hands are poor can't pay for a toy
must wait for Santa dropping soon

recession depression jobs are lost
outsourced out poured outside the moon
with houses foreclosed families are doomed
sleeping in tents in rented rooms

where is the light of day
where and why did it went away
greed and profit had come to stay
businesses gone to live in another country...
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homeless refuge...a poor boy's palace is an underpass in Lawton, Manila...image is from manila bulletin...i wonder how does the resident of the true palace in malacanang felt if he saw this for i feel so sad and drained with this image alone...

bulbs be mine and see you at spring time :)

choices, choices, choices...what you gonna do. now that it's tulips' planting time...the fall season is here. so many pretty bulbs that it is comparable to lots of beautiful girls that you can't even decide which to pick. they are all looking like barbie dolls, laughs...beautiful tulips make my spring shines bright, never a distraction. in fact they are inspirations, for my string of words, that is :) ...50-60 tulip bulbs and every single bulb makes me smile :) my happiness is very shallow, very, very shallow...music, plants and flowers, waterfalls and beaches plus mountains and forests...most are even free, so did you notice? i am cheap, laughs. annnnd don't forget to click all the tulips' pics, gorgeous! all of them!!!
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cat's most favorite salad is catnip :)

catnip is one cat's plant that makes saya very playful. yes, this plant had been picked several times before being pictured :) see those missing stems and leaves, i just remembered today to blog about it that's why :> and the best thing is, whatever left over i can plant it and it will come back spring next year for it is a perennial plant, meaning it will grow back every year like tulips :)

to know Him is to love Him :)

the best image in this blog...His birth is the best time of year for love is everywhere :) and with His guidance solutions are always at hand, never miss, whatever the problem that comes our way. He directs as to that path even how hard and how humiliating that means to solve that problem. i know being a parent of a disabled child, you gonna be ruined emotionally and financially and you do what you have to do to cope and to be whole again or to have a fresh start in life. and no one knows how you suffer not unless they are on your shoes and in the same predicament. people are so quick to judge you and to put you down without knowing all the details about your life. the best thing about living in the states is help is always on the way if you are willing to seek, to accept and to make use of that solution in a positive way, inspite of the pain...this image is nicked from the www, owner unknown. thanks for sharing. wonderfully created, my wallpaper forever :> "cause i have you" by wynn stewart...music is pure magic...Jesus is the most that we need, actually. in my case to make that clear, but i'm sure if you meet Him, your life will change...for the better, always...as the music shuffles, as the melodies move on...life continues, life moves on as well...

high school daze

i won't be able to ride the bus today
it's test time and i'm not ready
i won't be able to take the quizzes today
for my kerosene lamp is but empty

could i do it in a weeks time
when my parents will arrive
could i write those math and essays
when my lamp will be filled with kerosene gas

you see my parents went selling wares
and they won't arrive till late sunday
i hope by then my kerosene lamp
is filled with light so i can review and write...

the test that will make us pass
the test that will make us graduate past march
the test that will make us depart
these high school days so short and fast...
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Dear Dad

Sitting in silence, one starry lit night,
Beneath an oak tree not far from our house,
Thoughts of time passed,
Flashed into my eyes...

Those carefree days filled with daily delights,
Full of laughter and of joyful jibes,
Everlasting smiles, teasing to the top,
Sadly, time had to intercede for that to stop.

Missing happiness and musings of sorrow,
Teardrops falling no more face aglow,
My heart stopped to laugh, broken and torn apart,
From your undue absence, when you had to depart.

Dear dad, fate is such that,
Time steals someone,
Life's sunshine,
Love of one's life...

poems are expressions of our sad and happy lives. they mark our journey on this planet earth, whatever distance our life span would take us...be nothing like those sad aborted kids which mr. celdran is advocating i supposed. abortion is murder and to compound the sadness of this act, it is perpetrated with the consent of these kids' next of kin plus performed by professionals who are supposed to prolong life, the irony of it all. imagine earning your living ending the lives of defenseless human beings even with the consent of their own mothers or for any other reason there is, is not acceptable except only if it endangers the mother's life. life is God's greatest gift and whoever tries to end it is working with lucifer, the devil. we need to value life as we need that air to breath and that sun to thrive. we need to have consciences and not be a part of the process in destroying this precious gift from God...i knew women who have had abortions and they say that guilt is killing them and wished they could have turned back the hands of time. have them born and have them adopted, for God's sakes...the better alternative. own up to your faults. mistakes can't be resolved by committing another mistake and it is greater pa ha, murder. and resorting to killing your own child is one despicable act just for selfish reasons of shame or whatever. many are very passionate about this issue and so am i. who will advocate for these little souls, who? the catholic church and i wholeheartedly support its efforts to preserve life and to cherish it. who knows what dreams and possibilities are with these children if they are allowed to live... presidents, priests, artists or just plain jane and joe like you and me but it does not matter. a gift of life is the greatest gift, i will say it again...and only God who gave it... only Him has the right to take it away, enough said...(^_*)...

in search of...

i've never seen my grandmothers in both sides of my parents for both died very young. so i always imagine how they looked like based on descriptions of relatives. on my dad side they said that i looked like my grandma, petite, light skinned, kind, laughs. i wished though that i am taller (^_*) and that is from my mom's side, my maternal grandma was very tall i was told like my two sons :) ...image is from manila bulletin...

these tired hands are giving up
these old eyes can't seem to see the light
these feet are all but crumbling they can no longer take a hike

while flowers bloom in spring
trees die in autumn or sleep as leaves fall to the ground
as the cold winter cast its spell, we are trapped

while the years pass and swallow the youth
it leaves a wrinkled soul and a damage path
that will throw our life's journey at its last gasp

where did the swan go as it swam all alone in a narrow creek
filled with polluted sea weeds that can no longer breath
where did the fishes ran to live and procreate in this but damage planet earth

where do humans take cover as they are tired searching
and searching for the promised paradise on earth
kids being killed is no answer

abortion is not the answer in our search for the joy
in our search for happiness
and in our search for life's true meaning

for abortion marks the end not the beginning
as abortion is untimely death
as abortion is...
but a sin...
in our ten commandments...

abortion is not the answer in our thirst for solutions, in our thirst for relief of life's burdens...