Songs For Mnemosyne

Johanna - happy, bedimpled, and sans her front teeth :) Dear Johanna Banana, You will be recognized later for your scholastic achievement.Your school calls it "Academic Excellence" for Kindergarten. I am not sure if it is as important to you, as it is to me. Practicing dances and noisily strumming your guitar seem important to you these past days than practicing how to correctly receive your diploma. :) As I climb the stage to join you in a school recognition that you may not yet fully comprehend in meaning, I will climb with you recognizing some of your achievements unknown to many. This is not in any order of significance, because with you, I never rank - everything that happens is in equal degree of importance. Here are the Bow's Awards to Her Beloved Arrow (Gibran): *The Best Alarm Award  - Where all sorts and volumes of alarm clocks failed, YOU prevailed. Thank you anak for waking me up all days of my employment here in Manila. All my Perfect Att...

Galenna, my youngest sister, posted an FB status which caught my interest - hence, the online exchange below. T'is to celebrate her creativity, so that she may write more. Galenna: if warmth were a blanket of deceit i would, in solitude, embrace the cold. Ging: cold evening, where is thy sting? my Lord's warmth renews every morning! Galenna: morning, how fleeting thou art! whither thou goest, the heart followeth. but oh, t'is dusk... 'tis dusk! Ging: t'is creeping dusk that lures souls in, calleth so enduring; but fleeting might be, art thou morning; ever faithful thou cometh in the name learning! Galenna: learning, ever we are; that a star though near its death, spilleth out brilliance across the air, what then is ours to bequeath: charred mind of ideas or a simple life well-lived? Ging: a life well-lived is not at all simple; its creeds - it bleedeth, in consuming darkness - its light must be weildeth. so i sayeth- we bequ...

(I had no contact with my dad's family months after my birth or after my dad died when I was barely 3 years old, I guess. Sharing a story of family reunion thru a thread of email exchange with a dear Uncle I haven't met. I am trying to immortalize it by having it published. Deliberately removed some information. Found it necessary for security purposes. Happy reading.) From: Date: Sun, Dec 18, 2011 Subject: Re: Hello, Genevieve To:   Ging,   Thank you for unselfishly sharing facets of your personal life with me. I am deeply touched. It is difficult to top your e-mail, but I will certainly try...   Your dad was an honorable man. He was soft-spoken, kindly, earned his living squarely, and treated people with utmost respect. He stood his ground when he was on the right and he was resolute with his decisions. About the only thing I think put him on disadvantage was his incredible shyness. I can't even begin to imagine how he ever managed to woo ...

Ginoo, padayon ipaambit an Imo - Gugma, ha mga bato;      Kaluoy,      ha mga baras;           Paglaum,           ha mga abo; Kamurayawan, ha butnga han hinimuan ngan linara nam nga mga kakurian; Kalamragan, han im mga panaad ha iguinpityok nga dulom han kada tagsa mga dughan; Pagpahuway, ha kapatalan han kakrida nga waray man hin-ngangadtuan; ug ha dayuday Igpasangtup - nga an kanunay nga Gugma, Kamurayawan, Kalamragan, Kapahuwayan, in aada hitatad-i Ha Imo tiilan. # kadayaw 12.25.2012