Hot Tuesday

Intense,  hot sunrise

There is a small breeze blowing

But the air is still warm.

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Finally, It’s Summer

The sun is hiding behind the clouds

It’s been like this for a few days now.

PAGASA has declared that it is officially summer here

Fruits in season, flowers in bloom

Waiting, waiting for the sun

To show its face behind the clouds.

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Sunset Scene

She looked at the almost orange hue of the setting sun

A big fireball that  reflected  on the water

Sunset is just as lovely as a rising sun.

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Cloudy Sky

The sun is partially obscured

By scattered clouds

But it still gives that heat

That parch my garden plants,

Hoping for rain showers

Even just for a short while.

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Moon Rising

When the moon is low

You can see the sky

Brightest with its glow.

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Fading Moon

It’s a white orb in the sky

With its faint glow

When the sun shines

It slowly loses its light.

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New Beginning

Looking at the orange sky

Finally turning blue

The moon still rises.

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He Is A Brave Boy

The three of them had an outing in Batangas last week (both Obet and Nissa were on leave from work). Nate did it again. This time he jumped from the top without any hesitation. He did the same thing five years ago. What a brave boy. I could never look down from where he is because I am afraid of heights.

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Know The Difference

Got this on my feed at Facebook today. Sometimes, most of us are paranoid that a simple cough or runny nose is a sign of COVID-19. When I feel that I have a sore throat when I wake up in the morning, I  chew a little fresh ginger and let its juice slide down my throat and it helps big time.

I lately learned that in some hospitals,  in almost every case of death, they link  it to COVID-19 and some of them charge Philhealth so much. Did you know that there is a case of 15B missing in Philhealth’s coffers?  Corruption is rampant everywhere and I find it funny that every time we discover such, the heads of such likely corporations end up in wheelchair. Talk of Ex-Justice Corona, Pres. Gloria Arroyo, Pres. Erap Estrada and now the head of Philhealth begged to be excused from the Senate hearings because accordingly, he is on chemotherapy. The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) was created in 1995 to implement universal health coverage in the Philippines. It is a tax-exempt, government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) of the Philippines, and is attached to the Department of Health. A lot of people are clamoring for the resignation of the Dept. of Health Secretary but the president would not let him go even if it is obvious that the department is being mismanaged and they don’t even have complete plan to address this pandemic.  Philhealth is the only hope for us Filipinos when we are hospitalized and yet they are saying that by next year, there will no longer be funds that could be reimbursed for each patient/member  of it. Where could you find that the head/task force leader in this pandemic is a retired Army general when most nations have doctors/epidemiologists/ science researchers in their midst. Only in the Philippines.

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I Take Comfort In Her Words

I go down to the edge of the sea.
How everything shines in the morning light!
The cusp of the whelk,
the broken cupboard of the clam,
the opened, blue mussels,
moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred—
and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split,
dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture gone.
It’s like a schoolhouse
of little words,
thousands of words.
First you figure out what each one means by itself,
the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop
full of moonlight.

Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story.

Mary Oliver, one of the best poets I ever encountered.

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