here

here, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." --- Aaron Rose

do you see me?

do you see me?, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." -- Blaise Pascal

j

j, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

” We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. ” - Henry Ward Beecher

last breathe of August

last breathe of August, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

A week after, almost forgot to post something to remember my day. I thank God for another year to bask in His blessings. Special thank you to everyone who’s been part of my journey. Here’s to finding hope in everything, seeing God’s goodness in everyone, and sharing His grace every time. <3

never too early

never too early, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

Agosto pa lang may bibingka na sa amin... Sino may gusto? :)

talking walls

talking walls, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. " - Georgia O'Keeffe

*sketching with a broken nib during one quiet moment at the kfcd’s rectory.

august for quiet

august for quiet, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

“ We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ” - Ray Bradbury

stupefy

stupefy, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark Twain

dazed one

dazed one, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.' -- James Baldwin

weary one

weary one, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

'I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.' -- Mother Teresa

tangled one

tangled one, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times." -- Orson Scott Card

winged one

winged one, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up." - Pearl Buck

manila minds

Previous post talks of a creative culture... of people wanting to change the world. The Philippines too have something similar... the creatives are here. Quiet and working one step at a time... Some working from within until they are ready to venture out... Some working to on big things, some small. Sharing ideas, connecting dots... doing what they can. Like the dawning of something brilliant... IT is so here! One can't help but smile and be inspired. :)

one example: s.m-a (check her entire blog while you're at it. )

cultural creatives

found this on tumblr.

watch the short clip... http://culturalcreatives.cc/

hush to speak

hush to speak, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much." ~Germain G. Glien

a prayer for tita laring

a prayer for tita laring, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." - Kenji Miyazawa

*Rest in God's arms now, Tita Laring. You had a good journey. Pray for us as we continue to pray for you.

but i know you know that i know*

but i know you know that i know*, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." - Baba Ram Dass

one hopeful flickr shot

one hopeful flickr shot, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. " - G. E. Lessing

* During one of the longest waits... So much easier to get bored... It was hot too. I dunno if anyone else noticed this... I know I did. ;-)

never not thinking

never not thinking, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

" always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. the author or speaker from which you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn't know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly. " --- Oswald Chambers

one morning talkshow

one morning talkshow, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." -- George Washington Carver

happy birthday, jace!

happy birthday, jace!, a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"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

*for my little brother's bday (april 4)

reposts from tumblr

blank canvas. calling to create. broken nibs and stubbed brushes. dried paint and hard lead. endless possibilities. regardless. unnerving but not hopeless. too tight shoes. long walks. still carry on. delightful smiles. simple things. deep thoughts. unspoken. reassurance. uncertain. laughter. a beat or two. music sings to heart. great timing. sometimes. mostly all silly. inspire to resume. stop to recharge. breathe. close eyes. listen. all things the same. but different. so channel. energy to gather. empty first the self. pray. and things will come. -- 03282011

Today is like a moment at a landing of a very long staircase. Somehow I know I finished a task and will be prepping for the next. But what exactly did I do? I can’t remember any thing that was worth something. A full week’s work only half done. Thanks to my backache who mercifully is almost not here. Tomorrow is a break. Monday will surprise me with everything that was put on hold. Creative stress. March is almost over. Another ending/beginning. This morning, I glanced upon our grounds and saw a thousand santol blooms blanketing the garden. Spring. Which reminded me, the narra trees will blossom soon. Easter. The same thing. And so I retro-think again. Assessing. Hard enough to think ten things at once. Harder to be assailed by too many things about. Kind of familiar. Am I back somewhere forgotten that it seems so new? Or the old battleground with a new enemy? I searched for my old tools/ weapons and they’re not where I left them. Did I gave them away and forgot? Suddenly remembered my armor, placed it with the moon. The earth moved. So I’m sort of in between moving plates. Silly. Dizzy. Spinning. Must be still. Wait in quiet. From impulse, to reason, to faith. -- 03272011

shaken.

as if you stressed on something unforeseen…

spoken.

as if you learned something too unknown…

drew a line and crossed it…

then dropped the phone again…

a zillion note2selfs after…

dug the archive and found old thoughts —-

“remembered the snake that hung on the tree

as the sunbeam chased my thoughts away

stepped out to begin

but incy stopped me on my tracks

a half a dozen steps and gone

pressed enter

time to move on…” -071110

like a broken record, maybe…

spinning… dizzy.

it is not the same… can you not see the difference?

a deaf and mute spirit haunts…

the kind that can only come out in prayer.

patience and faith.

--03052011

first attempt

first attempt a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"Stretch my capacity to give. Strip self of self. Feel with an unhardened heart. See with new eyes. Speak power into people. Cleanse." - Sarah Meier-Albano


*I borrowed this quote from Sarah's tweet. (Thank you,S!) Will continue to repost this quote in every other flickr photo that I find appropriate. It's something I would like to remember all throughout this season of Lent.

ikatlong istasyon

ikatlong istasyon a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

*The Via Crusis passed by our street yesterday... and because we live a couple of blocks from the chapel, we always get the third station: " Jesus falls the first time."

**Lent begins. I feel a carpet being laid somewhere for each of us to walk on... towards somewhere grand. One question... Are we worthy of it?

*** We all know what to do, let's then...

one post-it hush

one post-it hush a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

” … no one is supposed to know what we are doing individually, although we have been summoned to do this with one heart and spirit together.”

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.

What am I giving up for Lent?

What will I give for Lent?

What will you?

for a memory of the heart

for a memory of the heart a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

*Posting this may take away the anonymity of a kind act... but this came in the mail today and made our day. Made me realize too, that the little things we do does make a difference... Really appreciate the appreciation. It also made me think of what to do for Lent... and so I am posting this as a reminder of that which i must never forget.

february blush

february blush a photo by * jdt... (shabba!) on Flickr.

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." -- Aaron Rose


*mom's other fave vine, blooms only each february... it's all gone now.

one shabba away

one shabba away Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe." -- Eileen Elias

for S & V...

never not seeing

never not seeing
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find." -- William Wordsworth, 1806

goodbye, tita josie!

goodbye, tita josie!
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." --- Robert Ingersoll

* Rest in God's arms, Tita Josie. Thank you for sharing your life with us. We will miss you.

of course i remembered...

of course i remembered...
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart." -- Jean Baptiste Massieu


4<3.

what i did today...

what i did today...
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." -- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

*** not quite sure if i could do this right... intricate and painstaking but it turned out pretty so i'm happy. four down twenty more to go... #creativestress

cute little button

cute little button
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet." -- Edith Wharton

more than one prayer

more than one prayer
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is simply putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." --- from the Word in other words book

*** praying for so many souls today... since last year, death has been knocking on many doors... more so lately... there's a wake or a funeral to go to every week... life is short indeed. do what we can to whom we can with what we have... but there's a bigger message here... patience and faith.

c

c
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." -- Dorthea Lange

patience and faith

patience and faith
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

“If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.”
--- St. Francis de Sales

* shadow looks like the church belfry.

happy birthday, mom and dad!

happy birthday, mom and dad!
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"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

*for mom and dad
<3

almostnotpurple

almostnotpurple
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

"purple is mad... because it can be warm and cold at the same time." -- words and thoughts in RGB

chasing the afternoon light

chasing the afternoon light
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” --Joseph Campbell

new page

new page
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

for continuing and beginning...
for running, swimming and flying...
for hellos and smiles and hugs...
for the planned and the unplanned...
for silver, gold, purple and aubergine...
for red, yellow and blue and green...
for you and your wish and for me and my dream...

*/''' '' '

bl
Originally uploaded by woodcum

something i found at flickr today.

i <3.

:)

*thank you woodcum for sharing.

'it is I...'

'it is I...'
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

sitting quiet at Your threshold/ waiting for an entourage/ heart all smiling/ each happy beat grateful/ the wind as joyful/ blowing in all directions/ a week’s worth of blessings/ in this new year of Yours/ still reeling from the newness/ grasping for some sense/ still gathering memories/ still putting pieces together/ am channeling and recharging/ You hit pause with my thinking/ old lessons/ new classrooms/ old subjects/ new teachers/ You let me look up and down/ take a peek at the big picture/ my flickr eye open/ all signs hopeful/ and now here in brave wait/ reaching out to hold Your hand/ steps still faltering/ steady me/ pressing forward/ i be

~jdt/ 01082011

hello, twenty eleven!

hello, twenty eleven!
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

shot taken at exactly 00:00 1/1/11 ...

cool!

i <3.

shabba!

:)

hello, twenty eleven!

hello, twenty eleven!
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

shot at exactly 00:00 1/1/11 ... cool!

i <3.

shabba!

shabba new year!

shabba new year!
Originally uploaded by * jdt... (shabba!)

blessed beyond belief.