for dad

for dad
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

happy birthday, dad!

love, j


*** reunion dinner with dad's side of the fam , celebrating mom and dad's bday... he requested baked mac... just want to share... :)

for mom...

for mom...
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

happy birthday, mom! :)

love, jdt



***she requested ube cake for her little dinner with friends tonight... we just finished packing up... :)

kala, the butterfly

kala, the butterfly
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

*** kala ko kasi hindi siya totoo tapos kala niya totoo yung tree sa wall... heheh... ;)

the messenger

the messenger
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward." --- Margaret Fairless Barber

*** remembering a book i read...

****missing my flickr shots, too.

forever seeing

forever seeing
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

***blank pages littered blue...
nothing ventured, nothing new...
yearning much but not enough...
holding on but giving up...
go about life as if nothing...
continue as if beginning...
here though uncertain and still...
trying extra harder to deal...

jdt/012110

i feel so fine... :)

i feel so fine... :)
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

*** just want to share... last year wefeelfine.org asked me really nicely if they could use my photo in their book ... they finally launched it last december and i got my copy last week... i'm officially sort of an author na... awesome! :)

wefeelfine.org/book/

write new, continue more...

write new, continue more...
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

*** new year's day morning, around 8, while texting replies to friends greetings, this it what i saw... i use my phone everyday but i only got the message now... hmmm... how apt... how very apt... it's probably the right time... shabba!

extra hopeful...extra happy... Shabba New Year!!!

extra hopeful...extra happy... Shabba New Year!!!
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights." --- Hamilton Wright Mabie