Dragons and Whales

As we look at the clouds forming scales,
We imagine dragons and whales
In the sea of cloudy haze
Like a child gazing through the day.

As we watch the last sunset of the year,
Shading colours of auburn and amber,
We will color every day dear
With happiness and cheers.

 A blessed year ahead!

Welcome 2022

Little Heroes

 Today, as we celebrate the National Hero's day, I would like to dedicate the celebration to all the children.

Since the pandemic started two years ago, the daily lives of our kids had  dramatically changed in an instant. 

No face to face classes, they're not allowed to go out, they spend the whole day inside their houses, spending half the day in front of their laptops while going through the hardships of online classes.

For such tender minds, I have nothing but praises to them for being able to cope up during this pandemic.

They are truly our little heroes,

Remaining cute and innocent even though they are forced to be mature enough to understand the pandemic situation.

Salute to all our little heroes today 

May you all become wise and successful on the paths you will choose to trudge someday.

I end this post with one of the most  immortalized line ever said by our  National Hero - Jose Rizal, it goes  - "Ang Kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan."

Happy Rizal Day!

Like a Child on Christmas Eve

 

And may our hearts be forever like a child on Christmas eve...

Ever patient and hoping for the gifts...

May we grow old and wise but continue to believe...

In the magic that colours our souls and our hearts in auburn fires, it warms, it keeps.

 

Since the pandemic hit us, I wasn't able to dine in my favorite coffee shop where almost all the baristas know me.

Today, I went to buy a drink and it was such a warm feeling that they did recognize and remember me even with my mask on.

And I just got my 2022 planner as well.

As I always say ...

This is Tradition. ♥️

Of Coffees and Auburn Fires

 

I just wanted to connect

To the moon and the stars

But everything else is the city and the lights

Burning my tired eyes.

I just wanted to have peaceful nights

Brew coffee on the open auburn fire

Use the mug you gave me inked with my name

Until the afterglows aflame.

Forgotten Magic

Over the time, we get drowned by how reality bites.

We get too cynical,

Not wanting to trust,

And Losing every ounce of magic

In everything we see.

We forgot who we once were,

We forgot how to believe.

We forgot how to be enchanted

That we just now let shooting stars fall

Without making a wish.

Much Appreciated

 ♥️♥️♥️

911

 You are that friend

I would call on first hand. 

My emergency hotline

My personal 911.

And forever and always

I am thankful for the grace

Each day having you.

And I am always here for you too.

 As a single-mother, raising my daughter alone, and being the sole parent doing this job, I wanted to inspire other women and let them realize that they can be strong on their own. In that way, I hope I am also raising my daughter to be a strong and independent woman someday.

 Most of the time, procrastination happens in our lives not because we lack the ability or the skill to do something we always wanted to do but because we lack the confidence to do it.

A Little While with Jack

 But I'm not sure if 

I have the right

To somehow write

You an elegy.

But you drift away

So soon and cruel,

And I've just met you

Four months.

But there's a reason

Why I am at your wake,

Listening to eulogies they make

On a cold December.

And there you are

Inspiring me even when you're dead,

In the midst of your body cremated,

I remember how life must be lived.

So with this Elegy

I humbly write 

What I think is right

To thank you for the inspiration.

So I thank

The stars

Guiding me this far

At your wake.

Seeing the Sunset and Stars all at the same time...

Makes me sing for them.

All the beauty it could offer...

And the Art in it.

 

2021 Wrapped

 https://open.spotify.com/wrapped-2021/share-5d49bf6f05244f91904035e3d049e4a6-1080x1920?si=VBf7PMi8THSXj9GS8cqvSQ&lang=en