thank you for 125,600 minutes worth of shabba... here's to many, many more! :)

thank you for 125,600 minutes worth of shabba... here's to many, many more! :)
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"Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." --- Menachem Mendel Schneerson

pre-bday flutters

pre-bday flutters
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“There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.” — Author Unknown

3 Augusts ago

3 Augusts ago
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"What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now." -- Author Unknown

i begin with nine

i begin with nine
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“…but often faltering feet comes surest to the goal and they who walking in darkness meet the sunrise of the soul. ” —- H.
Vandyke

*** a new moon today... i am called to begin anew... and continue...

almost forgot my flickr bday

almost forgot my flickr bday
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"Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts." -- Minor White


*** another year with you, flickr dear... i'm sorry if i don't post as much as i used to... but you know i love you... thank you to all the wonderful flickr hearts that continue to share what you see... most inspiring... as always, brings hope and touches my heart... :)

forty days (the “soroko-ust”)

"Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!" --- Henry Scott Holland

*** We celebrated Tito's forty days last friday... morning mass with Kuya Dennis as priest at the cemetery, (cool homily about the caterpillar/butterfly analogy)... then luncheon with kins and people who remembered Tito... By evening, we have a grasshopper for a visitor... we were told that like a butterfly, it's a manifestation of Tito's soul.

Pray for us, Tito... as we continue to pray for you. We miss you!