I feel most productive working in crowded areas lately. I find silence while working to be (paradoxically) deafening and thus I relish the hubbub of normal human activity to be quite conducive to focus. To be perfectly honest, I love the relative anonymity in my slightly darkened corner, relishing my savory basic food groups, as it [...]
Category: Writing Prompts
Why journal?
"The final twist of secrecy; lives hidden from themselves. Memories lost. "I just don't remember anymore, " they say blankly to their children or grandchildren. Lives leaving not a trace, just shadows..." - Alexandra Johnson ( From Leaving a trace: On keeping a journal, the art of transforming A Life into Stories.) 🙂
Photos: Intramuros morning
My friend Arla was entertaining her friends from France while they were in town for a few days. She asked me to join them for breakfast in Intramuros, before they would leave on a flight later that same day. Intramuros was one of my favorite touristy spots to shoot in, when in Manila, and I [...]
The Magic Paintbrush Lady
The Silver Lining
For the longest time, I had feared having my days die out slowly... softly into oblivion. That wasn't the way I had wanted to go, of course. Anything; with a bang, with drama, was a better ending that dying, forgotten. Keeping a blog was one of those things I considered doing long-term so I could [...]
On Writing (and paper and pens)
It is a combination of all the elements of writing; passion, paper and pen...that gets the juices flowing. 🙂
Cupid wants his arrow back
When I listen to a song with this cadence, there is a tendency for me to just sit still and stare off into space. "Lost Stars" is such,and it happens to be one of my favorite tracks on the movie, Begin Again. I watched this movie, with a former significant other a year (or two) [...]
Living forever
"Letters to A Young Poet", is a collection of ten letters written by Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) to Franz Xaver Kappus(1883–1966), a 19-year-old officer cadet at the Theresian Military Academy in Germany. It is one of my favorite books. I have read it many times through and it has always been timely. Although it [...]
Screams in ink
A short piece on my silent thoughts about writing in a journal and how private things need to be kept private. A diary is like a confessional... the burial ground, the seed bed, the debating arena of all your deepest, darkest fears. No matter how large or small it is, it probably holds the biggest [...]
