…your eyes stretch beyond your timer and into the open road, where you’re forced to live in the moment and not in anticipation of the end. Suddenly, you’re forced to make sense of the things that surround you. The red blossoms that litter the road become evenly spread ornaments that add a soft, graceful contrast [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 26, 2008
The pain that is catching up
It’s ten in the evening and I’m back on this chair, in front of this laptop, struggling to write.
As I think of what to say I am surrounded by a huge pile of books to my left. Books on etiquette, honor, manners, relationships, civility and dream-chasing. I am a teacher, teaching the course “Personality and [...]
June 7, 2008
Keep moving
Yesterday was another textbook example of things not going according to plan.
My aunt was scheduled to pay a visit to her doctor yesterday, as well as meet up with the folks at her health insurance company to renew her membership. Now last week, I drove to and from Novaliches to Makati to do a lot [...]
June 5, 2008
The first post
At long last! I’m writing again.
This inaugural post is a tribute to all those writers, bloggers, journalists, novelists who right now, are struggling to find words, phrases and sentences to express their ideas. I feel for you people. Everyday I feel a tension swelling inside my chest. And wow, it’s only now that I realized [...]
