the final sacrifice...

with dignity and honor
you waved and smiled
to serve your country
your destination
is war

your bravery unsurpassed
you fought with courage
that i may live
in peace and freedom
all i want

with love ones left behind
who may never know if
they will see you again
one more time
one more chance

hail to you,
fallen heroes
of our lives
you suffered endlessly
and paid the ultimate price

farewell, but unforgotten
you will all be in our hearts
comes today and everyday
your ultimate sacrifice
will be always remembered

and thanked...

happy and somber memorial day... in sorrows and days like this we realize that we have the power to choose how to live our lives...to be a hero, or not...and we have them in the 6,000 and counting American lives lost in recent wars...

on rainy afternoons...

art is from the www... rain, hearts and an umbrella. the sky is sad. aren't we all at times. and what do we do? some of us go out to pray for better days...sad tunes are heart breaking but it is worth listening to them. musical creations of broken hearts are outlets and they're necessities for the start of the healing process, i think...(^&*)...

inside the detroit institute of arts

JC had a class field trip recently at this house of the arts here in our state and i was off so i tagged along. i was here years and years ago and i can't even remember what i saw then, laughs, so it's time to refresh my memories :) and i was pleasantly surprised. i took lots and lots of pictures of these loads of beautiful paintings we call art, now it will take time to upload them. but here are 2 videos of the arts that i like most :) the adoration of the magi and the adoration of the shepherds. very adorable that's for sure. this place is truly a treasure trove of good and beautiful art, terrific!...flowers, music, art, poetry...life is full :)

timecatcher...

the lakes are overflown
with forces beyond our control
the river banks are gone
swallowed by the sand

the wind came roaring by
and blown the dreams we had
and passed it all so far
where it can't grow and divide

the days are filled with
violent powers so beyond
that no human kind alive
can fight and win at hand

time catchers we all are
kite fliers of the sky
when the weather is fine
and it's not ...half of the time...

our lives are filled with surprises and we can only hope and pray that these surprises will make us all smile :)...but as we know the residents around the overflowing and flooding Mississippi River and the tornado states down south are sadly in a sad and challenging times right now...we catch the times of the good and the bad and we adjust our lives as we see fit...and hope for tomorrow that is brighter than the past...and of course we catch the time or we race to do the jobs left behind by the turning of the days and of the nights...

the dancing winner :)

well, congrats mr. smiling, happy hines, laughs...but for me kirstie and maks won :) and "don't look so sad, i know it's over"...let's just be glad, right...and maks is really looking at that trophy, the sparkly round white crystal ball...almost maks, almost, laughs. oh well, maybe in the future, who knows...only God, of course :)...and if these 2 will make a movie i will go and watch even if i only watch a few... james bond, jackie chan, star wars so i could add them. it will be fun i am sure, dancing et all plus john travolta, a friend of kirstie. i remember watching his "grease" movie with olivia newton john at magallanes theatre ages ago. that was fun :> and the lady in pink in this pic was hines dancing partner...

second best :)

no complaints, the best amongst the ladies :) if not for that hines ward guy kirstie and maks would have taken that sparkly ball trophy. for the last time they again danced the first ever dance that they did in this program for the finale with that forget you music...hmn, yeah, let's forget the bad times who would ever want that, i'm sure no one does :)

WOW!!! tsk! winner talaga...

even we won't know the results till tonight...i was working and was sooo busy so i really wasn't able to see the whole show, but with this performance they might have a shot...hmn, mrs. dionisia pacquiao, look at ms. kirstie alley, at 60, your age, she is really sooo hot :) nice to know that age does not matter in dance, laughs, maks is 31, and kirstie is 60...more power to this lady actress, it pays to be a comedian, laughs. and of course maks is superb as well...good job, maks!... i like people who can make me laugh :>

but let's pause and say a prayer to the residents of joplin, missouri for the devastating tornado that leveled their town, who took 116 lives and counting and even battered a hospital...so sad to imagine how life could end in such a very violent way...

shuttle endeavour's lift off...

for the last time...the commander is astronaut mark kelly, the husband of the democratic congress woman from arizona, gabrielle giffords who was shot in the head in an assassination attempt but survived...she was present in this launch...a very lucky woman who survived miraculously while six others died in this heartless shooting spree while this lady was meeting with her constituents on that fateful day...bittersweet, sad but happy, a triumph over the devil...

one more shuttle lift off in july and then the shuttle space program will come to a close...and the shuttles will be on display in museums...

truly brilliant!!! dancing to the max...

this pair got their first ten. maks is really an excellent dance instructor for we are seeing good results. i am really very entertained by this unlikely couple. what can you expect from a lady actress and a comedian, laughs. she is really losing weight i noticed. i love kirstie, her life is a testament to never giving up to better ourselves...more power to her!

and i really love this on going tune, "for the good times" by newell oler...who would really wanna think of the bad times, right?...(^_~)...and "make believe you love me one more time"  hmn, it is an illusion, let's cut that, please...(^&*)...

the quest for the elusive triple crown starts again...

...with the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby. the winning horse hopefully will win the next race, the Preakness and then at the Belmont Stakes. the last to win that triple crown honor was Secretariat in 1973, hmn, lots of young folks were not born then, i'm sure, laughs. but it is a fascinating, heart thumping and riveting 2 minutes in sports. i don't go to horse races nor bet on them but i am always fascinated and glued on TV comes first saturday in may. it is not because of the hats worn by fashionable ladies but maybe because of the sheer grandeur and the chance to put my bet in my head of who will be the winner this year. i rooted for shackleford but he made it only to 4th place out of the 19 horses that ran. i always thought that this game was rigged though by how and by who that is the question. but come on, in 38 years, nobody had followed secretariat's footsteps yet?

and congrats to our super hero, manny pacquiao. not only that he can make traffic vanish in metro manila, with his fists he can make bigger men submit in defeat, wow! i think he is greater than muhammad ali :)...but i know you knew that already :>

raging water rescue

wow, i am hoping that i will still be driving when i am 93, not in flood waters though :)

and hot dances even if you're 60, wow, really wow. fat but full of guts, i love you kirstie. you are an inspiration for the fat and the old...way to go girl! no kidding i am seriously thinking of getting dance lessons, for exercise, laughs.

a brand new day...

as dawn reigns in the horizon
the sun will soon slowly rise
as the rooster croaks on us
the stillness of the night
won't be revived

the silence is now gone
where whispers flood
as the millions of us
welcome a new day
change, at last...

the first ever tune played in this blog, the irony is after more than 4 years of blogging it still rings true...would it be nice to end this blog with the music that started it all...but there are a lot of beautiful things to blog about. things that make our lives alive, er my life, laughs. like footprints in the sand, footprints that can be erased once the tide is up...although this cyberspace's footprint is much harder to erase so they say but it can be done...that is why there is that back up magic, a spare, a remedy if you pls...(^_~)...oh well...new beginnings we are full of that. as a new day dawns, as that warm and hot sun rise :)

our president, barack obama... the fake and the true :)

finally justice, although sadness still persists. life when gone can never come back...

and through the grief of it all, let us be entertained by an impersonator of one great president :)