chaos and beauty
there is beauty in chaos

Milenyo batters MetroManila, Philippines
(image shot from my A40)

"Typhoon "Milenyo," (international code-name: Xangsane) packing winds of 170 kilometers per hour, devastated wide swathes of land in Southern Luzon and Metro Manila from Wednesday night until yesterday afternoon, leaving at least 21 people dead, scores injured and missing, and causing widespread damage to agriculture and public and private infrastructure."
from Manila Bulletin Online

sunset from the office

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey

bus ride

On the bus of my life, sometimes I drive, sometimes I'm just a passenger
and other times (like now) I'm a tour guide.
- Simon Travaglia

church bell

Don McLean wrote the song "American Pie" in 1971

acacia


A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- William Blake

door knob

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

- George Washington Carver

slumber

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

atis

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

- Ralph Fiennes

lots of love

from

kuya, momi and dadi

chair

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. - Benjamin Franklin

wraith

I should have no objection to go over the same life

from its beginning to the end:

requesting only the advantage authors have,

of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

- Benjamin Franklin

the guava feast

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

- Benjamin Franklin

the carabao

He that can have patience can have what he will.

-Benjamin Franklin

tunnel

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

- Benjamin Franklin

the indoor pool

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin

playground

Games lubricate the body and the mind.
- Benjamin Franklin

footstool

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

September 06, 2006

big fish

Fish and guests stink in three days.
- Benjamin Franklin's

Poor Richard's Almanac

bottlecap

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

- Benjamin Franklin

Goodnight

Now it's time to say goodnight
good night sleep tight
Now the sun turns out his light
good night sleep tight
Dream sweet dreams for me
Dream sweet dreams for you

Close your eyes and I'll close mine
Good night sleep tight
Now the moon begins to shine
Good night sleep tight
Dream sweet dreams for me
Dream sweet dreams for you

Close your eyes and I'll close mine
Good night sleep tight
Now the sun turns out his light
Good night sleep tight
Dream sweet dreams for me
Dream sweet dreams for you
(Good night, good night everybody
everybody everywhere, goodnight)

Lennon/McCartney
from The Beatles' White Album

September 01, 2006