I stare at the bougainvillea in our canopy and it stares back at me. Its pearly white silhouette taking in all the sun. Then I stare at my laptop and saw a blank page and a cursor blinking at me. Its as if it’s asking me, so, what now?
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It’s so much fun listening to people’s conversations at coffee shops. No, I’m not eavesdropping. It just so happens that I can clearly hear what they are saying. It fascinates me to kinda understand their personality types even if I don’t look at them. Just merely hearing them leads me to many evaluations. God forgive if these evaluations are sometimes judgments. My crooked back straightens up and I hear the creak of the wooden chair where I am sitting. I knew this was a wrong position. The daylight flashes towards my laptop screen as I type away these words but I like that it has a double purpose where I can see the shadows of the trees.
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Trying to make sense out of it all.
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I just love this peace this moment of bliss
This night of breeze
Subtle yet mild
Strong yet fierce
Shunting towards the darkness
The vast midway into the empty skies
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On the third day Jesus made a miracle.
He Himself is the miracle.
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My Lord is my solace.
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Going to the convent has been the most beautiful thing I have ever done in my life.
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Back when I didn’t know what glory to God means.
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It takes a village to raise a child. And I am that child.
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I am a woman and I am amazing.
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You don’t lack life experience you just need more.
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In your solemn grace.
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When my own writing makes me cry, it means I’m doing the right thing.
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Live a good life my friends. That’s all there is.
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He definitely looks like an Elmer.
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Crazy people are the ones who understand your craziness too.
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Your laptop is your best friend. Your soulmate. Your true partner! You’re inseparable!
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Weird stuff about writers, when they feel like they can’t write or they want a change in environment, they will try every part of their house, even the toilet. Yes, you read that right, the majestic throne called the toilet.
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You don’t need to be super famous to bless the world. Your simple acts are the biggest blessings to others.
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I love my low I.Q., I accept my flaws because that is what helps me remain humble. Don’t get me wrong I strive to excel but I let God do His work in me.
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I don’t need gold accessories or expensive clothing to be beautiful. I am beautiful.
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To be quiet. To savor the moment.
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My prayers are valued by God.
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He is the God of the impossible!
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Then I realized that God has answered my intense prayer.
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Start with once upon a time.
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The writer with the poor handwriting.
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A story about lights and dancing fountains.
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I’ve put on my earphones without really listening to any music. Yes, that’s how crazy I am.
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A realization on how the unlovable love the unlovable as well is what makes them lovable.
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You are on the write track! Keep writing!
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God is a storyteller.
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God is the greatest writer.
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Just as the water flows same as my love for you will be.
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When I said to the Lord that I will come back to Him. And I did. Not with my strength but through his grace. Yes, I will always come back to you Lord.
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Pinoprotektahan kita. – God
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I love mornings but I don’t get to see them because I am sleeping.
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I always live each day as if it were my last.
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I realized that there is always more than everything. Far greater than anything.
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I realized that I don’t need to impress anyone. That the position or title in a job isn’t important.
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These are the things we do for love.
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These are the moments when you think you have a lot of stories in your head. When all is still dark and shimmering in the open sky.
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Because I don’t want to cry at the moment, instead I decided to write at the moment.
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I can think of a story whenever I travel.
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And you would close your eyes and try to recall that scent.
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I’m a writer because I don’t have any friends.
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Why am I a writer?
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I’m a writer because I love to write. I’m a writer because I love reading, reading has this different energy that it gives a writer.
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I always imagined my dying stage as waking up in a garden seeing yellow roses or flowers inches before my eyes, only to find out that I was sleeping on a bench.
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A life of perfection is not a life. It’s a robotic world.
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You are like the morning to me. Fresh, vibrant, I let the air embrace you as you walk because I know that you would turn and look at nowhere in particular, or maybe you will slightly look at the skies and smile with almost a laugh because you know that it’s me and all I just want or desire during that moment is to see your beautiful smile. I knew you thought of me too as I made the air danced. As you walked under the trees and beneath the grassy and muddy soil surface of the earth. You thought about me and that is how I wanted it to be. Your smile that nothing compares. The one that only you have. Beautiful and perfect in my eyes, irreplaceable, incomparable. It matches your eyes and for a moment it makes me happy that you smiled and thought of me.
– Lord
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Jesus is my forever.
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I just look up at the sky, say a little prayer then I’m okay.
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I look up not to see the sky but to prevent my tears from falling on my cheeks.
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Strive for excellence but don’t push yourself too hard.
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People who reach their dreams are fearless.
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You don’t have to be intelligent to reach your dream.
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I’m starting to pull my hair out. don’t worry that’s normal for us writers.
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I often get past the word count.
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The weird thing about me: I wear different colors or designs of socks from the other.
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That moment when you are writing a blog post and it turns into a poem.
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You know you’ve hit a eureka moment while writing when your cup of chamomile tea turns cold and your hair is all messed up without you knowing it. That is the reality believe me.
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I write until my carpal tunnel hurts my veins. It’s worth the pain anyway.
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You know that you are desperate for success and you want to stop procrastinating when you start TYPING THE FILE NAME OF THE MASTERPIECE YOUR CREATING IN CAPITAL LETTERS! DO YOU FEEL IT?
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As the leaves wither.
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The entire world is my workspace.
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Never cease in praying.
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Who here agrees with me that the moon has a face?
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Oh, Jesus, you are preparing me to surrender in your love. To surrender to God’s love
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Love Letters to God
Mahal ko, what did I do for you to love me like this? You love me so much. I don’t understand why but you completely do. You say that there is no understanding needed. Just love. Just love. How great it is to love someone like you who would do anything for me and yet at times I feel like I’m doing less or nothing at all for you.
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Serving at the Feast as a photographer
That feeling when you are rushing running towards the happiest place on earth and as you enter the cold breeze of the cinema, you slowly walk hearing someone speaking, proclaiming, along with matching moving colorful stage lights. They suddenly start to sing praises to God. As I walk on the aisle, I don’t know how to explain it but it always feels like my wedding day. It always feels like I’m going home. It always feels like I’m welcome. As I choose my seat you see the people looking at you side wards. Then you feel goosebumps and you feel enveloped and swallowed by the beauty of the place and sent to a different and wonderful world.
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When you don’t know how to prioritize your tasks, just do something.
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I love to write at unusual places like hospitals. I like to stay in these places for unknown reasons. Near the river, the beach, near the ocean. Where there is nature. Where there is air, peace, serenity. I also write in a place where jazz music is played.
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Tagalog
Sa pagitan ng pag-ibig nating dalawa, sino nga ba ang magsasabing mahal kita?
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Sa tuktok ng bubong ika’y aking masisilayan. Datapwat ika’y lumisan. Mahal ko. Iniirog ko. Sinta ko. Nasaan ka. Sa tuwina ba’y nandiyan ka?
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Sino ang pipiliin mo. Ang bokasyon na tinatawag sayo ng Panginoon o ang tinitibok ng puso mo?
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Wutume – the pabebe way of saying gutom na me.
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Ang lalim ng pagmamahal ng Diyos.
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ISAW AT IKAW
ISAW
I SAW
I SAW I CAME AND I CONQUERED.
AY BALIKTAD PALA YUN.
I SAW
AT
AKO
I KAW
AT
AKO
I SAW YOU COMING FROM AFAR AND I TOOK ONE LONG LOOK AT YOU.
ISAW
ISAW
ISAW
IIIISSAAAWWW
ISAWALANG BAHALA
I SAW HOW YOU LEFT HER ON THAT EMPTY ROAD
I SAW HOW YOU TURNED YOUR HEAD FROM LEFT TO RIGHT NOT AGREEING TO WHAT I SAID
I SAW HOW THE LIGHT PIERCED THE DARKNESS IN YOUR SOUL
I SAW THE STOPLIGHTS TURNED GREEN
IKAW AT SIYA
IKAW. SIYA. AKO.
WAIT
IKAW.SIYA.AKO.WALANG TAYO
ISAW SECRET SOCIETY
I SAW HOW IT ALL ENDED BETWEEN THE TWO OF US
I SAW HOW YOUR CONTAGIOUS LAUGHTER SPREADS LIKE A VIRUS
ISAW O IKAW O IHAW IHAW O ILAW
IKAW ANG ILAW SA ISAW NA IHAW IHAW
NAGSIMULA ANG LAHAT NG DAHIL SA ISANG ISAW. NAKILALA KO IKAW. NAKATAPAT ANG ILAW SA IHAW IHAW NA ISAW NUNG MAKITA KO IKAW. NAPUKAW ANG AKING DAMDAMIN AT ANG NAIS KO’Y IKAW AY AKING MALIBRE NG ISAW. DAHIL SAYO NATUTO AKONG ITANAW ANG PAROROONAN NG BUKAS NATING DALAWA.
KAPAG NASAKTAN TAYO MINSAN IYAWAN NA. IDAAN MO NALANG SA ISAW ANG NADARAMANG SAKLAW NG DAMDAMING NAKAPUKAW NG MUNTING ILAW NUNG IKAW AY MASILAYAN KO. ITANAW KO NA LAMANG NG UTANG NG LOOB ANG KAHAPON NATIN. NOON IKAW PA AT AKO. NGAUN SIYA NA AT KAYO.
IYAWAN NA
TAYO NA AT ITAWID NA NATIN SA KATAPUSAN ANG ISAW NA ITO
SANA MAY NA-IWAW AKO SA SINULAT KONG ITO
DI BALE NA LAMANG
DI BALE NA KUNG ANO ANG AKING NA-I SAW
DAANIN NA LAMANG NATIN SA ISAW