Balesin Island

Balesin Island

" Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts."
Minor White

Shot with a Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 16-25 f2.8, Benro Travel Angel, Phottix.  All rights reserved.

Before & After

We got married in 1987.  He was a young Lieutenant then. Twenty seven years later (and a few pounds heavier) here we are. How does one stay together that long?

I have no answer really.  Only that love must have played a part. That and a lot of hard work. 

Love is patient and kind.

Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.

It does not demand its own way. 

It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 

It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

Love never gives up, 

never loses faith,

is always hopeful, 

and endures through every circumstance 

love will last forever

 1 Corinthians 13:4–8a

I thought I needed new prescription glasses

I've been wanting to try the shooting range at Eastridge golf & Country Club.  It's a few steps away from the driving range.  So this week when I was scheduled to play a round with some friends, I opted to shoot first before our tee off. I first tried the 40 cal pistol.  I thought it was a little too big for my hand.

I shot a few rounds which all ended in the alpha range.  Not bad i thought.

Then i tried the 9mm handgun.  It was the right size for me.  My friend Ian tried it out as well.

Next to fire was the 22mm rifle.

It was my first time to try a rifle.  It was surprisingly light and easy to fire.

But hands down my favorite was the 9 mm. 

I guess i didn't need new prescription glasses after all.

With buddies Noel Abadilla, Ian Veneracio & Ellery Temena

The tides

Low tide at Boracay

The tides are constantly turning. Sometimes rolling on low. Sometimes rushing in high. But always cyclical. We must move with it. Both the ups and the downs. With or against it. That's just the way it is. I prefer not to get swept along. Knowing not where the tides might take me. But rather dancing with it. Taking it all in and forever grateful when the tide flows full.

The other siblings God gave us

We go back some 33 years. My best friends and sorority sisters from college. In a world where life is short and uncertain, this friendship which spans over 3 decades is a long time. We've been there for each other all these years. From thesis to graduation, marriages and childbirth, family losses and heartaches, promotions and celebrations, love found and lost. It's the kind of friendship that is priceless and rare. Where you can call each other up at 2:00 in the morning and cry your heart out. Where you need not talk or see each other for stretches of time and yet pick up like you were only together yesterday. Someone once said sorority sisters are the other siblings God gave us. I belive so.