"A joyful heart is good medicine." - Proverbs 17:22
And that's what The Wee One is gifted with, a joyful heart that has somehow kept her immune system up and strong despite Baguio's below 20-degree temperature.
She recently told her Manila-bound mother that she really didn't care for toys as pasalubong on the latter's return. It's a roundabout way of telling Kimi to hurry back!
My being a stay-home granny during the recent Christmas holidays allowed me to take stolen shots of Kai. It's becoming harder to coax her to pose, and it all depends on her mood at the moment. Most times, she'd cover her face or pretend she's asleep or turn her back so she can focus on playing by her lonesome which she doesn't seem to mind. She puts her heart into group play, too, and isn't shy anymore when faced with other kids as wee as her.
No, she won't budge for a photo beside the Christmas tree at Mario's Restaurant on Christmas. Later, she concedes but a lot of combination bribes and threats had to done to get her to pose for a family portrait. Photos by Booboo Babeth
What I like is when she quietly does her own thing. Her mother thinks that Kai's preferred form of play--classifying colors and arranging her toys neatly according to colors--is already bordering on obsessive-compulsive behavior.
Look at what she did with these beads. Having mastered stringing them into necklaces, she arranges them in precise order with such concentration.
The OC in The Wee One at work
Showing posts with label Book of Proverbs. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
In Fields of Dawn and Forests of the Night
"The
field of the poor may yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice."
- Proverbs 13:23-23
- Proverbs 13:23-23
for
my daughter ida fernandez & my niece marga
susi
who i held & sung to as babies & have morphed into headstrong women
oh vey! what can this old biddy
say when i
see
how you two have
risen before my eyes,
moving from states of
being to becoming?
oh, how this woman's heart
swells to legrand & bergman music
each time i see ida
writing from a
writing from a
distant country
far from country
family, friends,
writing of her crucial
loving work as teacher
molding young minds
shaping souls
in a host country
so antisepticized
by material wealth
where parents
focused on high-paying jobs
absentmindedly dump
their children in school
at early morn, then pick them up
later than late
as usual
or i hear marga
on the phone
taking instructions
from this aunt
suggesting something better
like a professional
truly able to distinguish
between work &
blood ties.
oh, dear lord, how this aging
swaying mother/aunt
sees three fourths
of her job
in a world almost
inert from injustice
the graft of the crafty
is done.
go ida widda,
go marga marg
go plow & reap
all the nickels & dimes
of your days
find the rhythm &
the rhymes of your days
& center yourselves
stand tall
on the road of
the righteous
then smash all traditions
all the stupid stupid senselessness
of the blinded arrogant pious
devoid of a soul's riches
go my lovely loves
while i step aside
as you run
as you run
forth to a golden
tomorrow waiting
deep in your
still innocent eyes.
--Babeth
Lolarga
Dec.
4, 2012
5:43
a.m.
Title
and some lines from the song "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your
Life?" by Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Undated photo shows child Ida protecting a younger niece with Marga beside them.
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