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Assignment du jour is a diptych of slide presentations we're doing for the Mallari family's upcoming celebration their daughter Arabella's first birthday this Saturday.
For a whole day the busy household paused while we took photos, lots of it. Less than a hundred frames will make it into the final DVD but its enough to make love visible.
One almost feels like an intruder yet privileged to record this moment of familial bliss.
© 2006 ABF
We of the islands, possibly due to our proximity to the elements, are the first to notice the slightest aberrations in nature. Even thousands of miles removed, we have retained this uncanny ability.
“May pagkaka-iba (Something’s different) ,” Mang Tadeo sniffed at the mild air as we sat on a bench by a holiday display at the Chicago Botanic Garden one recent Saturday. It was eerily warm for a January evening in the Midwest, where sub-zero temps are the norm at this time of the year.
“We are all going to pay for this come March,” his wife chimed in as she joined us with her carefully elucidated rejoinder, peeling off a parka to the relief of their teen-age daughter who deemed it “like, totally” inappropriate.
It didn’t take months for the payback to occur. This weekend another ice storm swept from the south, leaving nearly thirty people dead and millions of dollars in property damage. I’ve seen pictures of blades of grass coated in three-inch thick layers of ice. This means starvation to cattle stranded in pasture. Even away from affected areas, the human herd also suffers in innumerable ways. At the height of these storms and days after, airports have been clogged with delays that send financial shivers through corporate America.
Read the rest of my latest article for the Inquirer here.
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I received my press ID today from the Inquirer in Manila. I have been asked to contribute a regular monthly piece on the community's social and cultural scene; among other assignments. With our kababayan's diversity of experiences finding material shouldn't be a problem. It is sorting through the milieu that will take some effort. Our slight advantage is the camera. What I can't express words will be translated into images.
Yes, Inquirer. Here I am. Send moi.
Salamat to Sylvia Mayuga and J.V. Rufino.
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What better way to spend a weird, spring like evening in the middle of winter (yup, we're all gonna pay for this in March!) than watching this 1995 greencard romance.
"Closer to Home"
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Breaking out the new notebook and calendar. I had a Stendig one year that almost took up a whole wall! This Pentagram Typographic version is just the right size. The edges still curl up annoyingly for the first week or so then it settles down. No annoyances with the Moleskine planner whatsoever. Its perfection.
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