May 2012
4 posts
“So please, please, please. Let me, let me, let me, let me get what I want this...”
– The Smiths
“I read once that the Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a...”
April 2012
11 posts
When we hold each other in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away. The bad things are still there, the nightmares still walking. When we hold each other, we feel not safe, but better.
“It’s all right,” we whisper.
“I’m here, I love you,” and we lie:
“I’ll never leave you.”
For a moment or two the darkness doesn’t...
“Now and then, it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be...”
– Guillaume Apollinaire
“Ngayong araw na ito, nagawa ko na rin (sa wakas) ang mahiga sa damuhan at...”
– Silent Retreat reflection, March 12, 2011 sa Baguio. :)
From Mr. Ken Abante himself
You have to say no in order to make a bigger yes. In decisions involving two “goods”, it isn’t a question of why not choose the other, but why choose the one you chose. The world isn’t black and white. There are people who fall into the trap of reductionism; no’s are painful, but when given right, are also life-giving. It’s a matter of looking at the bigger...
“Problems always come in pairs. There’s the immediate problem that must be...”
– Michael Hyatt
“Laging pakatandaan, taglay ng bawat isa sa inyo ang liwanag. Magmahal, magtaya,...”
– Bobby Guevara
March 2012
9 posts
“I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there...”
– Anne Lammott
“Happiness always requires a leap.”
– Marc Pasco
Amazed at how the most unexpected people are those that would actually be there to help you go through life’s hell. And the people you trust to be holding your hand to get you out of the mess? You wouldn’t even hear a single word from them. Which leaves me with the realization: At the end of the day, you can’t really count on your friends all the time, and the people you thought...
February 2012
10 posts
“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.”
– Oprah
You never wanted to figure me out
“Our two teachers, pain and fear”
– Magnificent Ruin
“Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation...”
– Sucker, John Mayer
“To a young heart, everything is fun!”
– Charles Dickens
Ooh, electrons disturbing the activity in my brain
January 2012
7 posts
“But I know I’m who I am today because I knew you. Like a comet pulled from...”
– For Good, Wicked
“Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight....”
– Charles Bukowski
December 2011
10 posts
Tama na ang pakikinig ko sa mga kwento mong paulit-ulit, hindi naman sa nagsawa na ako, pero mabuti na rin namang tumigil na ang ganito. Naubusan na lang din siguro tayo ng sasabihin. Naubusan na rin ako marahil ng gana para mamansin. Ito na lang: ayaw na kitang makausap, matignan, malapitan dahil alam kong hindi mo na ako kailangan. Maligayang Pasko. Maligaya ang Pasko. At Bagong Taon na namang...
“Stop spending time with the wrong people. – Life is too short to spend time with...”
– Mr. Miroy
Paano kung hindi pala para sa akin iyon. Paano kung hindi na lang pala nakita. Paano kung hindi na lang pala. Paano kung hindi na lang. Paano kung hindi na. Paano kung hindi. Paano kung. Paano.
