IF I FIND YOU SUBMERGED IN MY INTROSPECTION, IT'S BECAUSE I AM ONE WHO OVERFLOWS WITH IT. MY EXISTENCE IS CAPTIONED BY THIS PREDICAMENT OF A LIFE LARGER THAN THE MARGINS PLACED AROUND ITS EDGES.
MY BITTERSWEET STATEMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE FREEDOM TO EXPRESS..
I sneer at people who can throw invectives at others without knowing where they are insufficient... Those who rage in anger over things they never understood - like how two strangers connect without spending time to talk..Or why it seemed like they have known each other before?... In the paradigm of sacrifice, I am the one that always needed something to believe in, in all the aspects of my life. To live, to protect my children, to love and fight for others and everything that matters to my existence. I learned, slowly, in the length of time too stretched and far away that hope the same as love is the simplest of word we can think of and give. And ironically, the hardest to get in this world where deceit and betrayal can sometimes disguise themselves as over-bearing. The purity of heart will always remain the wall that shields us. It's certitude.
♥ON BOOK POWER!♥
I love books, I treasure them like my life. I spend thousands of minutes in Powerbooks - reading from prologues to epilogues before paying for them. And it's one freaking habit I carried on to ppl close to me - they're adddicted to it! .
♥MY TAKE ON KIDLAT TAHIMIK AND HIS SUNFLOWER HOUSE!♥
Truthfully,I would celebrate each day I get the chance to meet people who think this way. Kindred ideas of equal mindset... People who idolise Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Coelho's Warrior of the Light...People who can relish every second of conversation with Eric De Guia as he talks about the planks of woods he used to build his atelier on Session Rd..And how art is desecrated by wannabe's.
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♥ON THE SWIFT PASSING OF TIME...♥
Youth is fleeing, temporary. In this life, family & friendships are like the air that I breathe. I feel if you let go of those, just like your youth, everythin will be BLAH. We should keep them - like how you imagine a child holding tightly a lollipop in his hand..
♥WHAT ABOUT THE PALM READER?♥
An old soul, so said by a palm reader. One blink of my eyes would mean a thousand ideas conceived and processed... Do you know what constitutes the basic idea of being a woman of substance? When intelligent conversation matters more than sex itself.. I am starting to patronize that...How many reincarnations ive transcended? Caffeine-freak. Walk into my skin... Soulful.Ethereal.
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8.23.2008


WHAT USED TO BE OUR SANDBOX...
(sandbox: n. A low box filled with sand for children to throw and play in. )


This was how it was to write about you. Besides, we knew that aside from the MANY other things mundane (like what appetizer to eat or you finishing up the coffee i always forget to drink) and the metaphysical (our never ending stories) we both love doing - it's one of the best things we are so most passionate about! Therefore, I envision our own version of Lonely Planet or Animal Planet (remember the poor baby Taz devil?) or Nat Gen and how we would have chronicled the lives of animals, people, places and history brilliantly. Grin.

Though I'm prouder if people will see (soon!) the work you did on your dad's film bio on DVD as a counterpart of the book your family launched last week. The time you had to spend sleepless in the studio from January to July doing everything to meet your target date, which you did - and not havin anythin except coffee, water and power drink just to get by awake to finish everythin! Oh, ask me about those long months.

I'd like for the readers to know how incomparable you are and if you were a dfferent person I'd still say the same. Which means I am unbiased to say that you are eloquent, articulate, funny, creative and colorful! Perhaps, to put it in a simpler perspective - the Ronnie I had always expected for everyone to see.

I always have been the quiet crowd that cheered for you on your current endeavor -you know there will always be somethin' for you and your passion, huh. I saw the future coming, giving you back what used to be the dream which is now in the form of reality. I'm praying that it flows like a river. Really. I always never told you but as hard as i try not to say it - thank you for staying by my side all this time in your own, different ways.

Prayful that God will gve you more so you won't have to leave for long. The altered reality we never planned somehow had taken us close together. And this will go on and on and on.


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written in July, 2008.
http://www.bittersweetcharisse.blogspot.com/
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* Photo taken by Calvin Flores. Thanks, Shoti.*


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WAM'S WORLD IN A SHUTTER SPEED.


http://www.electricthirdeye.blogspot.com/ (wam molina)

Relish by viewing. As he captured fleeting beauty through his rangefinder before it can disappear forever.
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8.22.2008

GRIEF.


For the first time today, I woke up with this kind of grief I never felt for such a long time. I felt a loss and it hit me. Somehow, when you get used to the presence of someone very dear to your heart, who understood you and knew you and accepted your imperfections the same way you did - you never saw the loss coming.

I am grieving. And yet, happy for what i gained...
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RETROSPECT OF MY GRIEVING.



There is no lack of drama in my life. I have more than enough 3-ring circus materials for writing; but even so, I always approach each goodbye with hope for a better day.

-THE SUM OF OUR DAYS
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8.18.2008







HOW WAM & ROXEANNE HAVE GROWN.


All of these I'm doing for both of you to make sure you grow up stronger, wiser, loving and respecting the people around you.
You both have your own purpose to live. I know that wherever destiny will take you, you will take care of each other until you grow older.



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INAH TOOK SHOTS OF ME.
Saturday, August 9th.


















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8.17.2008

WAKING MOMENT.


I feel a million times stronger and more sure of myself. Of what i want to be. And where will I be. Now, my waking moments spin around Wam and Roxeanne, my life at work, far away . In this journey, i had lost priceless people. What's important in the present is what I have - which I swear, I never asked God to give me but how thankful I am for having.
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8.16.2008

PRECIOUS WORDS FROM JOEY.


Hi Cha,

Thanks so much for the kindest words you chose in the comment you left on my profile page.

Such acts of generosity are most precious ... and rare nowadays.

Joey


(I told Direk Joey yesterday how much he is like the same soul, always funny and larger than life. Never boring. Salamat, Joey. I'll bump into you very soon! :) )
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8.09.2008

KINDRED.

Out of curiousity, I read the email a stranger wrote in my My Space messaging. And I thought it was so beautiful and endearing to the heart. One thing I said to Faith, Chi and Shem the other day : when I write, there's succor when I know someone's reading it. And are moved.

Please read the excerpt of what one kindred spirit from 10,000 miles away wrote to me. Am I bad that I never said thanks directly! ....

Charisse, I just think your a very talented writer where your thoughts come out clearly and originally on the page, I enjoyed reading what pieces I did and I'll get into your blog and see what creativity you have there to woo me. I appreciate good writing because I'm a poet and writer myself and artist now as well. September I have plans to take guitar lessons, so life is amazingly what you make of it, how much you put in equates to what you get out. All too true we never get anything out of things that don't inspire us or move us in some way, but we have to explore, put in the time to find out, relationships are quite similar in that way come to think about it.

Incidentally; I thought your pics you shared are quite wonderful, your daughters are angels and my thoughts reading the Taj Mahal pic was; magnificent is the only word that describes you, quite honestly it's true and I'm totally honest about thinking that because I only want to deal with the truth period and revealing what those thoughts are is simply affirming what is already true.

Nice to meet you, I hope we can have some deep and meaningful conversations in the near future, I would love that immensely.

Michael

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