Whistling for Moonbeams

Gotta schedule a trip to McDonald's for their latest Happy Meal toys. Oohh, these babies are precious! =) photo via the baghag

Traversing the city's roads, the mind's eye conjures safety, blocking out the images that pinpoint pain, threshing out the familiar ...

for C-- and L-- I have come to the conclusion (after much deliberation with myself, days after that Monday afternoon at Pergola) that w...

--one of the most comforting lines anyone has ever given this crybaby.

something to look forward to. =)

It completely slipped my mind. This blog turned 3 a week ago.

Random thought for the day: In the city, people age faster. Detail from a dream: Someone, pointing. Message to self: None. Sabi ni ...

press the backspace key until you disappear from the page.

What is my heart to you that you must break it over and over -Louise Gluck, "Matins"-

The dreams have stopped. I have been able to sleep through the nights. The rain is the only thing that wakes me up. Even then, I have only t...

somewhere unspeaking sits my life;the grim clenched mind of me somewhere begins again, -E.E. Cummings-

Nabibigatan na ako sa hangin dito. Pagaanin naman natin. I-click ang link na ito . =D

But only say the word and I shall be healed. When we are left with nothing, we are not left with nothing. For at our most forsaken, we ar...

"A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, / A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, / Which finds no natural outlet or relief / In...

Pag natapos na ang lahat ng ito, magbabalik-tanaw ako't maaalala ko na ikaw ang isa sa mga dahilan kung bakit nalagpasan ko itong pinagd...

When we love a wanderer, We wait for footsteps That may, or may not, come: First the hours-the-days; Then-years. Then, never. Yet alway...

Massacre+key+witness+killed+in+Maguindanao http://www.gmanews.tv/story/194255/maguindanao-massacre-witness-killed-lawyer And the DOJ is p...

There comes a time when you swim or sink So I jumped in the drink 'Cause I couldn't make myself clear  -Aimee mann, "Invisi...

Watching this has been a complete waste of time and money. Well, at least I get to bash it in this blog, I guess, like i did the first ...

Tumbling-hair                         picker of buttercups                                                          violets dandelions...

"silence, and the keenly musical light/ of sudden nothing..." -E.E. Cummings- The evenings and the nights have not been good to m...

A visit here (some time last week) and a twenty-something-minute wait among these beautiful greens yielded these:

brought these lines into this page. You are not here.

the world will turn.

     Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles:they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn,...

are wondrous things. A beginning might purport a preceding end, which is a death of sorts. It could be a circling back to something old that...

Caught this on the Turner Classic Movies channel last night. My dad had taught me "Over the Rainbow" (yep, that Arlen/Harburg bal...

Read Chekhov's  "The Lady with the Dog" .

            She could not stand the anger in her mother’s body and so she made her way out much, much sooner than they had expected. She cou...

Thoughts can be such devils. When so much time is in one's hands that one runs out of things to do, the mind takes over and disaster oft...

by Louise Gluck Night covers the pond with its wing. Under the ringed moon I can make out your face swimming among minnows and the small ec...

And so would I. From Broadway.com : DESCRIPTION Come Fly Away  combines the seductive vocals of Frank Sinatra with the sizzling sound...

a tree . This time, the rain. This time, the night.

(Elizabeth Bishop) The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is...

To be still. To be still.

How is it possible  that a 30-year-old such as I could still find herself thinking "that's me, I'm Alice," while watchi...

I wanted to stay as I was still as the world is never still, -from "The Doorway" Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris -

The great thing is not having a mind. -from "The Red Poppy" Louise Gluck,  The Wild Iris -

A girl ought to have a sense of humor   That's one thing you really need for sure   - Fanny Brice, "Funny Girl"- Trip ...

about my childhood--about the quaint, old house I grew up in, about its resident turtle and trusty, ancient Queen, the dog, about the dear, ...

Hmm. I just realized... I haven't shopped in ages. photo via the sartorialist

I jumped on the "Glee" bandwagon a long time ago. A couple of things made me do it: First, the music. "Glee" mixes and...

That's how it is when it comes. First, a teardrop of a thought that falls into clean, clear space. Next, an encumbrance of pain struggli...

...because, in the delicate ecosystem of our body, too much of anything will disturb the balance. So, in this sense, pain really is a sign t...

In the meantime, I'm sick and hived all over. 

"Apollo and Daphne" oil on canvas, John William Waterhouse, 1908 Daphne and Apollo At the end of the pursuit is a reversal: ...

Chow King Halo-halo + Fruits in Ice Cream + Yellow Cab NY Classic + Icebergs Halo-halo + Starbucks Iced Grande Mocha + Tater's white che...

The mind and the heart hunger for flight but the feet remain on the ground. The soul dreams of its displaced darkness.