Homemade by my lovely husband.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Friday, October 23, 2020
setting uprIght knocked down school chairs
High school competitive Quiz open season. 1982 or thereabouts. Anybody with the guts for it could enter. Having the guts didn’t cost anything, so off to the quizzes I went.
I didn’t do particularly well that year, a fifth place in science and third place in English (I think).
My brother Uwel, three years my senior, and his friends were there cheering for me through the windows and grates of the school library where it was held. The talk was that I can finally put upright the chairs he knocked down while we were in high school. I was sure he was proud of me.
I remember the buzz and tension after every question. I’m usually indifferent about things like this, but that time they managed to get me excited. Excited enough to look forward to the following year.
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thanks eric cyntch and carina for the photo.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Freshly baked banana chocolate bread
Banana-chocolate bread and chocolate chip cookies from Maggie George‘s recipe.
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Saturday, October 17, 2020
Wall decoration
Charles eventually relented and agreed to not keep the hanging lantern where it was in this picture. I sit on that side of the couch because of the wheelchair and I always felt like the lantern was gonna fall on my head.
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Friday, October 16, 2020
2 years ago
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
tiny hand blown glass vase
Out apartment constantly has flowers since lockdown.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Den Den
We have a tradition in the Philippines that’s a cross between a debutante’s ball and a religious procession.
This is Den Den, a grandchild one of my brothers.
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Monday, October 12, 2020
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Help me, Doggie, I think I’m falling
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Friday, October 09, 2020
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Ano sabi mo?
What did you say dear? My eldest sister, Norie, would ask earnestly whenever I started belting/shouting a song. It took me a while before I caught on that she was making fun of me, inferring that she couldn’t tell if I was singing or just talking to myself really, really loud. I must have been 10 or 11.
There was a flurry of activity that day. I was hanging around Norie’s room because she was moving. Nobody said where to. I assumed to Manila, where else? Another sister was taking over her room. I don’t know if it was my age, I always assumed everything’s fine.
After a while, I remember receiving a card from Norie. The card said, “Missing you!”. It had two penguins hugging. It had a very specific smell that I have since associated with things sent from the U.S..
Sunday, October 04, 2020
Afternoon sun
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Saturday, October 03, 2020
On my father’s shoulders
It usually ends early January.
One Christmas season, I must have been 5 or 6, my father took me to work - a bus depot that he managed. In the waiting room, right next to the glittery Christmas tree was a poster of “Jaws”, that summer’s ubiquitous image.
There was a buzz in the air., “Mrs. is here.”, everyone whispered. “Mrs.” was always just “Mrs.”. She was the boss, owner of the company. My father must have been busy attending to work. When eventually he caught wind of her presence, he grabbed and lifted me to his shoulders and we ran and looked for Mrs. The idea was to see if she was giving Christmas presents. She was gone by the time we got to her office.
Whenever I’m reminded of that day though, I realize it wasn’t the missed “papasko” that I think about. It was that my father never picked me up before then, at least not that I remember. I remember that it was nice being on his shoulders. I remember it was awkward because even at that young age I was tall and spindly.
I remember feeling special.
We went back to his office and he sat me on his desk He told me to keep my hands open and onto them he dumped all the coins from his pockets.
Happy days.
XXX
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
i can use my right hand again...
I woke up middle of the night without the usual heaviness on my right arm. i slowly moved my fingers. They’re here alright, although i couldn’t tell where my right hand was. moving some more confirmed that my right hand was resting flat on my belly. my right hand was moving freely again.
fearing the disappointment of finding out that this was just a dream, i forced myself awake, once in a while moving my hand to make sure that i can still do it. after a couple of hours i fell asleep again. I woke up again and found my right hand very stiff again.
XXX
Sunday, September 27, 2020
glorious morning
this is the morning glory vine that charles planted at t window by my side of the bed. it’s already got two flowers since he planted it a month ago. pretty eh?
xxx
Saturday, September 26, 2020
Saturday, September 23, 2017
bukĂł revelation
There was one time when one of my sisters, Ate Julie, when I was about 10 or 11 and she in college, was obsessed with the movie "Fame", Irene Cara, and her song "Out Here on My Own". I was still in elementary school then and have not heard of the movie until she told me about it. She had a radio with her and she turned the station dial relentlessly until she found a station that played the song. What was memorable about it was that before then, I never saw her passionate and excited about anything at all. She's always kept to herself. I never saw her reveal so much of herself after that, either.
Satisfied on finding and hearing the song at that moment, she let me in on a something even more precious to her: she said much as she loved the song, there was another in the same movie that she loved even more. I remember her trying afterwards to play down how much she loved it, which only made it obvious that she did. She had a girly crush and she told me about it!
Today, as everyone in the family has their heart and mind with her, I looked up the song and found the video, above, which appears to have been filmed a couple of blocks from where I first lived in New York.
XXX
Sunday, September 11, 2016
our lovely fish tank
© Joselito Briones
I love how with the new Canon 5D Mark IV, pulling focus is just a matter of of pointing at different elements of the view on the touchscreen LCD monitor.
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