I started writing this a year after you had left us. But never got around to finishing it. I miss you dearly. I am writing this to celebrate the great and wonderful man, husband, father, and grandfather that you are. You have lived a great life. You may not know it, believe it, or want…
Category: relationship
What’s In A Day?
Can you believe there’s only eighteen days left until the New Year? Every night, my daughter and I spend a few minutes talking in bed before I go to sleep. Sometimes it’s just about how our days went, what her plans are for the weekend, or what to cook for the next week. There are…
Revered Words
Just like any typical Filipino family, we are not keen on expressing our love and appreciation for our parents, siblings, or any immediate family members. It’s like there is an unspoken rule. On my last conversation with my father, I opted to say encouraging words for him to stay strong and to get better so…
Regrets, What’s Yours?
Do you know what is the number one thing people have at the end of their lives? Regrets…. There’s always that feeling of, “if I could,” or “I wish I’ve said this or done that..” What if we could rewind our life and go back to a time when you wanted to do better or…
Superficial Connections
Connect (verb) meaning bring together so that a real link is established. Superficial (adjective) meaning existing or occurring at or on the surface. – appearing to be real or true only until examined more closely. Nowadays, it is very difficult to find and establish real connections. Social media has made it harder for everyone to…
When I Grow Up…
“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you’re young. But I don’t think we make any fewer when we’re grown up.” Jodi Picoult Ah, the old age wisdom of expecting to have your life planned out at such an early age. Remember when you were asked about what you want to be when you grow up?…
One Time, One Meeting
Ichi-go Ichi-e I have a very strong fascination with Japanese phrases with deeper meaning. Somehow they have a word or a phrase for everything and I love it. In this age and time, it seems to get harder and harder to be in the present, in the now. There is always something else that we…
Loss Changes You
If there is one topic that I think we try to avoid, it is death. When Daddy passed away in 2021, it taught me many things about love, living, grief, forgiveness, healing, letting go, slowing down and many other things that we would normally take for granted. Things that we set aside for later days….
God’s Given Days
A few days ago, yours truly turned another year older and wiser…I would say. There is something about birthdays that makes me extra grateful than what I already am. It’s in knowing that I have another year to add to my memoirs. Days and weeks and months of waking up to a new day, of…
as We forgive
It’s 1:30 a.m. I can’t count how many times or how long has it been since I would wake up around midnight or a little later and toss and turn trying my best to fall back to sleep. Every time when this happens, I would – most of the times – just lay still and…
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