Saturday Evening Posts
January 24-30 Edition
A Thousand Summers 3
Happily, I got a four-day vacation
near end November: two days off because it was Thanksgiving in the U.S. and
weekends are our fixed rest days.
My
first stop was Manila. I circled Luneta Park from the National Library to
Instituto Cervantes, both in Kalaw. I saw a lot of young students in different
groups practising for their stage presentations in and around the towering
Lapu-Lapu statue. I love children. It's always a joy seeing them in action - so
full of innocence and enthusiasm for living.
I basked in the relative tranquility of the tree-covered
courtyard of the old church. It was amazing to see all those sculptures and
Masonic symbols
It transported me back to another place just like it, also
showing two bold films for the price of one. That was in Zapote some time ago.
I was playing hooky from another high school I went into, in Las PiƱas. I was
13 years old. A stranger sat beside me. We were the only ones in that row. His
hand gently fondled my knee. My heart pounding nervously, I felt his fingers
beginning to caress my thigh...
In some of my previous lives, I believe I had died as a
samurai who committed seppuku on Fuji and as an Incan shaman on a vision quest
in the Andes. So as far as magic mountains go, for thousands of years, things
have remained relatively the same.
2 comments:
"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship." ~ Amelia Earhart
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." ~ Lao Tzu
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