Halalan, Pag-asa?

"We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs."
---Will Rogers

Hiyaw

"Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,
And that cannot stop their tears.
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows,
The young birds are chirping in the nest,
The young fawns are playing with the shadows,
The young flowers are blowing toward the west—
But the young, young children, O my brothers,
They are weeping bitterly!
They are weeping in the playtime of the others,
In the country of the free."
---The Cry Of The Children, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Inosente

"Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it."
---Pamela Glenconner

Hubad na katotohanan

“We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn't matter to me. What matters is that if you believe in the sanctity of life then you believe it for life of all ages. That's what I hate about this child-worship syndrome going on. "Save the children! They're killing children! How many children were at Waco? They're killing children!" What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they're off your fucking love-list? Fuck your children, if that's the way you think then fuck you too. You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up.”
---Bill Hicks, American Comedian

A wish for you this season!

"Wouldn't life be worth the living
Wouldn't dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?"

Butas

"A hole in a Filipino classroom is a hole of the Philippine education system."

Kabuntagon

“What do you mean?
Do you wish me a good morning,
or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not;
or that you feel good on this morning;
or that it is a morning to be good on?”
---J.R.R. Tolkien

Libro

"When I was young, poverty was so common
that we didn't know it had a name."
---Lyndon B. Johnson

Kama

"We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world. "
---Muhammad Yunus

Chicharon

"In a dark moment I ask,
"How can anyone bring a child into this world?"
And the answer rings clear,
"Because there is no other world,
and because the child has no other way into it."
---Robert Brault

Agos

"Ang mga batang ngayon lang isinilang
May hangin pa kayang matitikman?
May mga puno pa kaya silang aakyatin
May mga ilog pa kayang lalanguyan ?"
---Masdan Mo Ang Kapaligiran, Asin

'Til the end of time...

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into."
---Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

Umaga na...

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.”
---Og Mandino

Gulong...

“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
--- Elizabeth Lawrence

Para kay Itay!

You may have thought I didn't see,
Or that I hadn't heard,
Life lessons that you taught to me,
But I got every word.

Perhaps you thought I missed it all,
And that we'd grow apart,
But Dad, I picked up everything,
It's written on my heart.

Without you, Dad, I wouldn't be
The man I am today;
You built a strong foundation
No one can take away.

I've grown up with your values,
And I'm very glad I did;
So here's to you, dear father,
From your forever grateful kid.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Prabal

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore”
---Vincent Van Gogh

Lolo Emo

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."

-Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti

Kandungan

"Sa kandungan mo, mahihimbing ako
Sa kandungan mo, nasa 'yong lahat ang buhay ko
Sa bawat saglit ang 'yong pagmamahal
Ang pinadarama dito sa 'king mundo
At sa pagluha ko, yakap at haplos mo
Sa kandungan mo, payapa ang loob ko..."
-Carol Banawa, Sa Kandungan Mo

Basura at Buhay

"Society is composed of two great classes -
those who have more dinners than appetite,
and those who have more appetite than dinners."
-Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort

Anghel Na Walang Langit

"Mga anghel kaming walang langit
Dinggin aming hiling
Ang aming panalangin
Sa bukas namin
Ano ang gagawin?
Sana'y marating
Ang hanap naming langit..."
---Mga Anghel Na Walang Langit