///EGOISM///

Ima reblog somethin' like this was a Tumblr:

Borrowed from: similarobjects

Photograph by Ixchel Lara, September 2010 ~ Composition by A.I.

& what a perfect opportunity to post this song which, by the way, I used to be oddly obsessed with:

///COASTING///

This morning I realized it's been a long, long while since I was last truly sad. It may appear odd to miss such a seemingly negative emotion, but note that I'm speaking of sadness & not of depression -- two very different things. After being subject to depression for years in the past, I would never wish that upon myself again. Sadness, conversely, I feel can be rather liberating. It shows one the full range of human emotion; the reality of ups & downs, all equally valuable. In no way am I complaining about the intense influx of love & light I've been blessed with this year, just trying to remember how sadness is something to be cherished as well. It's true over & over again that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Coasting on a steady road of happiness is the most enlivening, freeing feeling, but rollercoasting between happiness & sadness can be something real too. I've nothing to be sad about right now, & I am thankful for that. I guess I'll just feel what I'm meant to feel when I'm meant to feel it. & right now, it's all b l i s s .

Images by Mati Klarwein & Ixchel Lara ~ Compositions by me

By Your Side
Cocorosie

///EQUATORIAN///

ready for summer

shine bright

seven sleeps till i fly

toward the equator

~*~

Artworks by Raul Gerra, Augustin Lesage, Mati Klarwein, Anne Lindberg, Leo & Diane Dillon

Good Love

Cherine

Crush

Wax Mantic

Happiness

The Foreign Exchange

///HOMELAND///

That feeling-phenomenon of restlessness + anticipation + impatience that occurs when something exciting is about to take place. I felt this in the last few weeks of senior year high school, & I feel it every time I've a trip back to the homeland nearing. The latter is happening right now, & it's ever so hard to concentrate on anything but the impending holiday. Not that California has been anything close to dull or depressing lately -- in fact, the last couple months have been the best I've ever had here -- but home is home, & I will always, always yearn for it & love it more than any other place in the universe. Home to me neither has to be the place I was born nor the place I spent the most years, but rather the place I feel most in tune with. This coming trip, it'll have been five months since I was last in the Philippines, & I've big plans to
create + experience + appreciate +  l o v e .

See you soon.

memories of pandan paradise & mystical malumpati
january 2012

Coconut Girl
jamespants

I Go To Sleep

Sia