It's More Fun in the Philippines!

Image Source, Photo by Eva Müller

HAHA! This just made my day. No typhoon can break our sense of humor. It is indeed more fun in the Philippines!

Imagine Us

#WordsinAirProjectNo6

But to steal the words from Humbert, the poet/criminal of Lolita, I need you the reader, to imagine us, for we won't really exist if you don't. Against the tyranny of time and politics, imagine us the way we sometimes didn't dare to imagine ourselves: in our most private and secret moments, in the most extraordinarily ordinary instances of life, listening to music, falling in love, walking down the shady streets or reading Lolita in Tehran. And then imagine us again with all this confiscated, driven underground, taken away from us. - Reading Lolita in Tehran

|Quote by Azar Nafisi from her book Reading Lolita in Tehran

What We Search For in Fiction

She reminded me of a warning I was fond of repeating: do not, under any circumstances belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.  - Reading Lolita in Tehran

 #WordsinAirProjectNo5

There is a poem im trying to memorize because it makes me happy

SIMPLICITY
by Emily Dickinson

How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And does n't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.

Me at Dahilayan Bukidnon

Time to Brighten up Your Day with a Smile because the Filipino Spirit is Water Proof

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(A young Filipino girl smiles as she and her brother receive their first bag of food aid at a center in Tacloban.)

 (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

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(#Tacloban smiles. So good to see! #Leyte #Philippines)

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(So great seeing all their smiles despite what they're going through :) gotta love the Filipino spirit!)

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(If you've donated to our operation in the Philippines, here's where it went. #ThankYou)

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(Smiles in the #Philippines. Amazing, considering the smashed home in the back belongs to that girl)

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(stopped in the middle of the road. children had a sign "help us!!!" 

gave them biscuits and they were so happy!!! #operationsmileFollow)

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(No one can ever take away a child's smile, even a super typhoon can't!)

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The Filipino Spirit! This is how I know it is going to be okay. All pictures and the corresponding quotes are taken from the internet, mostly from twitter and instagram. Thank you. Smile :)

Anderson Cooper 360 - Mabuhay Philippines!

My Little Prayer for the Typhoon Yolanda Survivors

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Lord God, I am ashamed that for these past few days I have only been looking after myself, praying for only me and my problems.

Lord on this day I ask that you bless the people who have been so affected by the typhoon Yolanda, especially for the people in Tacloban. May you bring comfort and peace in their hearts; I pray for those who are still looking for their family that they may be found alive and if not may their bodies be found. 


Because you are the bread of life and you have promised that whoever believes in you will never be hungry or thirsty i pray for food on the table for every family affected by the typhoon. 


For those who have been orphaned and lost their Father and Mother, I pray that you be their Father and I ask also for the blessed mother of God that she may be their mother in these times of need, for the Holy Family to look down on us with compassion. 

We are your people Lord; do not let us perish in distress. Give us hope for always. We are the happiest people on earth I know. Do not take away the reason for our smiles. Have mercy on us Lord. Thank you.  

Washed Ashore

Waves angry,

Washed ashore bottles, and slippers, and toys, and weeds

What delight to see them come here?

Who could have owned these washed up things?

That was of long ago

When other areas were terribly far

And far meant messages sent were received for the next 2-3 days

Where mails were a delight, and not too slow

Now these washed up things meant somebody’s terrible loss.

Not that story of a little boy losing his slipper in the sea

Decided to throw the other one hoping for someone to find all two

There is no little boy who owns these washed up things.

These washed up things are not my delight no more.

These washed up things are memories

Memories crying in the dark; wet and cannot breath.

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For the little girl who takes delight in washed up things after every storm, and for the big girl who remembers that little girl.


 #Haiyan#Yolanda

Loving What IS

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Sanctity consists in willing what happens to us by God's order. If we understood how to see in each moment some manifestation of the will of God, we should find therein also all that our hearts could desire.

-Jean Pierre de Caussade