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June 2022 Paintings

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Tidbit 1 soft pastel, pet portrait commissioned by my dear friend Sonia   Tidbit 2 soft pastel pet portrait Chickening digital doodle Eggening digital doodle Chair Love Photoshop Old Magic Watercolor inspired by Ninang Gilda Cordero-Fernando

Do you mind?

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 So what's on your mind? Here are some things on my mind right now:  Artworks, Nature and Games galore!  The big red flower on the right is actually a discarded zinnia from my neighbor’s sidewalk which I took a picture of, cropped and then googled for proper identification. The artwork on the left is my recent output from our Pastel Floral workshop. The dated Pirate digital drawing I included is a symbol of the pirated movies/games I indulge in despite my 3-month free Apple TV subscription which expires on October. Hm. Some legitimate games available on Apple Arcade I actually play a t m and hope I can play with after my free subscription ends include: Lego StarWars Battles and Castaways, Kingdom Rush Vengeance (nice!), Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis, Taiko No Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat, SongPop Party, My Horse from Natural Motion (an old App) , and Simon’s Cat Storytime among others. Plus there are some more really engaging games on my Switch so…I never really run out of ...

Hagod Pastel Floral Work in Progress

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  Charcoal Sketch (on a DIY Sanded Paper courtesy Iris, out hostess)  (A colorful) Watercolor Underpainting Soft Pastel Final Output From PPA's Hagod Pastel Floral Workshop by Iris Babao-Uy on August 28.

Brianna Wiest Wisdom

❤ 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...

"Anay"

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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...

Pet Appreciation Day

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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 ...

Song Break!

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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 t...