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What I Have Lived For

2006-01-20T12:18:00.000+08:00

My Lesson Plan

What I have Lived For

"Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of human kind.
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life.
I found it worth living."

~Bertrand Russell

A friend worth loving

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"If you have a friend worth loving
Love him, yes, but let him know
That you love him, ere life's evening
Tinge his brow with sunset glow
Why should good words never be said
Of a friend until he is dead?
If your work is made easy
By a friendly helping hand say so
Speak out brave and truly
Ere darkness veil the hand
Should a brother workman dear
Falter a word of cheer."

~Daniel Webster Hoyt

A softer answer

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"A softer answer turneth away wrath, but hasty words turn up anger."

~Bible

The spirit is greater

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"He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh away a city."

~Bible

He is dead

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"He is dead whose hand is not open wide
To help the need of a human brother
He doubles the length of his life long ride
Who of his fortune gives to another
And a thousand million are his
Who carries the world in his sympathies."

by James Russell Lowell

Miriam's Fifth Month

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October 1945

Miriam continues to be active. By kicking and moving about she is always away from her pillow. She tries to mumble unintelligible sounds but is always cheerful. Often when she cries Daddy would recite to her,

"Mayroon hatubi
Halipad hadapo
ha kahoy
Habuka hapakpak."

Miriam's Fourth Month

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September 1945

She is very active. She cries very loud but as soon as she is picked up she stops at once as if she is not crying. She sucks her finger very often. She did not experience the simple exercises Sister Leni experienced at this age.

Miriam's Third Month

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August 1945

Continues to gain weight and height. She is very "malikot" now.

Second week of August

Miriam can see very well now. She smiles at us and kicks in the air. She makes unintellgible sounds. She always smiles and seems always cheerful.

Mamma first left her to teach at Rizal Elementary School beginning August 9 so she has to be left to her Lola and Auntie.

Miriam's Second Month

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July 1945

Sleeps well but not soundly. She sleeps very often but wakes up very often too. Unlike Leni she is sensitive to sound or noise. Her bowel movement is very regular. Mamma gives her a bath everyday. We supplement her milk with artificial feeding.

Miriam's First Month

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July 3, 1945

We went out of the hospital. Daddy and Auntie Dangal took us out in our automobile. Mamma is not so strong yet.

Miriam's hair, unlike Leni's, is thick and long and black. Miriam seems to be 'sinkit.' She is bigger and longer than Leni. She sucks very well but unfortunately Mamma has little milk from her breasts.

It's a Date

2005-01-19T12:28:00.000+08:00

July 13, 1940

Cinema Review: It's a Date

Story of a young girl who fell in love with a middle-aged man but in turn this man loved her mother. Pamela (Deanna Durbin) was broken-hearted because John (Walter Pidgeon) married Georgia (Kay Francis).

My Favorite Wife

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July 6, 1940

Cinema Review: My Favorite Wife

A hiliarious film portraying the life of a man (Cary Grant) who married for the second time after thinking his wife died in a shipwreck.

Wuthering Heights

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June 24, 1939

Cinema Review: Wuthering Heights

Story of sweethearts (Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier) overpowered by strange love. They did non marry each other because of the girl's love for vanities although they both struggled how to overcome their passion for each other. At the end they found out that they were really made for each other.

Jesse James

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April 25, 1939

Cinema Review: Jesse James

Jesse James (Tyrone Power) turned to be an outlaw and murderer because of the injustice of some men in the community. Also starring Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly an Ranolf Scott.

Just Around the Corner

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Cinema Review: Just Around The Corner

Story of a girl (Shirley Temple) who thought that a certain old man was Uncle Sam and that by helping this man would help her father. So she raised funds for this old man.

The Cowboy and the Lady

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March 5, 1939

Cinema Review: The Cowboy and the Lady

Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon

Story of a rich girl who married a cowboy despite their different in rank socially.