Whistling for Moonbeams

What I'm reading right now: "There's nothing that could convince someone  who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is...

My team in the office has an on-going love affair with weight-loss. I've already lost track of how many bets they've had on criteria...

is an entirety in itself. Mere specks that we are in the vastness of the now as we know it, how to make it in the spaciousness is to loosen ...

What's earth-stopping is the howl of a train expressly on its way to not here. It moans a phantom hunger all the more terrible becaus...

Yeah, life is good.

came in three hours ahead of my shift, attended a colleague's farewell party, had coffee with Sheila, ran a calibration meeting, gr...

It's almost the end of the week and I feel like I barely had time to blink. When there are things to do, places to go and friends to go ...

with dear, old Joni

Last night, I fell asleep to the soundtrack of "Amelie". Watching "An Education" has definitely put me into a spin of ev...

"The life I want, there is no shortcut."

Watching “You’ve Got Mail” for the nth time reminded me of the yellow butterflies that have seemed to be innocuously intruding into my days,...

At some point or another, one reaches the age --biological, or otherwise--where the heart (as how they call it) allows itself to be at the c...

wafting in one's peripheral vision blown softly by some wind magnified then blurred by the night turn out to be tendrils of stray hair ...

then maybe it could talk some sense into us. What with its being privy to all the time we waste brooding and sulking and thinking and starin...

Because a moonbeam falls on the unlikeliest places. Because a myth is a myth is a myth. Because it takes time for sand to find itself. Be...

the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. -Jean Houston

     the rain is brightening now. -Elizabeth Bishop, "Rain Towards Morning"- The wind takes something with it when it passes...

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...