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 do I 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
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 [...]
Back to Basics, part deux
I was watching “Twelve Years A Slave” earlier this morning…in the middle of the morning heat wave, and in the throes of a migraine (or so it felt like it). Times are not very nice lately, I’ve been feeling down and heavy, plus the way my cousin was clearing her throat every few minutes was [...]
A Farewell to McCharming
Derek Shepherd, the man who was made of the stuff of dreams...died today. As one of the most charismatic leading men in the history of television, he deserves a space in my freedom space. He was so well-made, so perfect...and he always said the best things (at the best times) ever. And those lines? They [...]
This Happy Light 