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❤ Brianna Wiest ’s words (often mistakenly attributed to Anthony Hopkins) are brutal, but still a truth:   Let go of people who are not ready to love you. This is the hardest thing you will ever have to do in your life and it will also be the most important thing. Stop having difficult conversations with people who don’t want to change. Stop showing up for people that aren’t interested in your presence. I know your instinct is to do everything you can to gain appreciation from those around you, but it's an impulse that steals your time, energy and your mental and physical health. When you start fighting for a life of joy, interest and commitment, not everyone will be ready to follow you there. It doesn't mean you have to change who you are, it means you have to let go of people who aren't ready to be with you. If you are excluded, insulted, forgotten or ignored by the people you give your time to, you are not doing yourself a favour by continuing to offer t

In every life, each of us all have the chance at love. It’s intrinsic for living creatures, to keep the species going, so to speak. For us humans, we were all born out of love. Supposedly, at least. And so, as symbiosis goes, we are all born to love in return. In my life not fully lived, I had a love very early in life. It was deep and special and mutual and to this day, something I treasure and remember with profound fondness. I had loving, hardworking, and highly intelligent parents. They were both working lawyers who never thought for a minute of shifting their service in government and who chose to stay in a low-paying job throughout their lives but which eventually taught us the value and priority of honesty and integrity over the accumulation of material wealth. Growing up as the youngest in a family of five children, my mother Imelda apparently needed help in maintaining house and in raising all of us. Needless to say, she hired maids and nannies some even before I was born. O

Today is National Pet Day. Our family had several pets when I was growing up in our old house in Apo. One of mine I remember was a soft-shelled turtle named Tevye. This is his story as written in my Twitter timeline only expanded . Earlier in the day, I just caught the #IMDB prompt, "What is your favorite pet from the movies and tv " and after answering “I love ‘em all!”; it made me immediately think of ours. 3:15 am Speaking of pets, here are my faves or at least were: Baboy (aka Aphrodite) the all black mixed-breed dog; Nessie, the green trained parakeet; Bartles 1 & 2, the hamsters who lived in my S.A.M. cage (small animal module); André and Rios the Dalmatian cousins; Coal the black lab; Brownie the cat; etc. etc… I remember we had so many pets at home. At one point in time, there were no more than10 dogs 🐕 , some cats, fishes, white mice, ducks and rabbits! My oh my, our old house was like a menagerie! 7:38 am To add to my pets, I have to include Tevye to

Colors of the Wind  Song by Judy Kuhn Without bursting into an aria , let us all appreciate the lyricism of this Menken & Schwartz  song: …  You think I'm an ignorant savage And you've been so many places I guess it must be so But still I cannot see If the savage one is me How can there be so much that you don't know You don't know …  You think you own whatever land you land on The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim But I know every rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name …  You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew …  Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain Can you paint with all the colors of the wind Can you paint with all the colors of the wind …  Come run the hidden pine trails of the f

Painting Florals, a PPA challenge. A3 Mungyo Paper. April 24.   A fun colored pencil, watercolor and ink painting of my Timon and Pumbaa stuffed toys.  Hakuna Matata. April 22. My version of Renoir's The Spanish Guitarist in Watercolor for #WorldArtDay. April 15. At some point in school life, yeah I was a sunflower 🌻.  Digital art via #PaperApp #ProCreate and #PSExpress. April 11. Once again, it's Me, Aly and Anay  as a digital tapestry using  #Paper #ProCreate and #PSExpress. April 9. I feel like I'm the gif that keeps on giffing. More of me in Digital Drawings using PaperApp, ProCreate and PSExpress. April 6. A projected image of me and my brother Aly as Sugar and Spike .  Also, a collection of comic book art dedicated to them  that's really fun to reminisce. Digital drawing via #procreate and #psexpress April 1.