Asked Brian to go to the center to pay our water bill.

I can't be bothered to get dressed and leave the house.

Worked half an hour on fourth layer.

Brian is now doing electrical work on the ground floor.

Worked an hour on third layer.

Angelique and Jazz came down to a late lunch in the dining room; Aubrey sleeping after her night shift.

Henson's Photos of Last Night's Dinner

Your Messenger message:

"Good morning, sir Tony!

"May I ask some insights from you regarding luck? "Is luck one of the drivers in our life? Or whatever happens to us are part of our fate and karma? "I believe in hard work and dedication to the things we do most especially in our careers. "That the be all and end all of our success is ourselves. "That we should always be equipped and ready for whatever. "But I cannot discount that there are people who are really just lucky! "Lucky in getting a job, lucky in a way that blessings pour on their lives, lucky to have opportunities just rain on them. "Are luck and karma conjoined? "Thank you for always being generous with regards to advices and insights with us, your followers. "Have a wonderful Sunday!

"

My reply:

What you call the good luck of others is their good karma.

I suggest that you read up on Carl Jung's synchronicity.

Good morning, Cubao!

Every day is a day of exciting choices.

At the rate I'm going, which is quite slow, it looks like my exhibit will be ready for scheduling in June.

Good night, Cubao!

A fruitful day ends with a cozy car ride home.

One Message For One Of 2,600 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with six syllables in your name: Take your mind off luxuries and comfort and focus on your training. discipline and hard work will always be the order of the day.

Back home from a dinner with Peachie's Sprit Questors and an agent at Green Bar in Makati. 

In the meantime Angelique, Aubrey, and Jazz are having dinner and coffee out.

Asked Q. to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

Lunch at home with Angelique and Jazz; Aubrey sleeping after her night shift.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun fairies press white uniforms for the coming week.

Good night Cubao!

The stars twinkle like fireflies above the dragon tree.

One Message For One Of 2,600 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with six syllables in your name: You dream of becoming a star, even at your tender age. Take a reality check from time to time. Be like other, normal, children. Otherwise you face a life of illusions and delusions.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Asked Rayven to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

Good morning, Cubao!

Day gnomes take strolls through neighborhood side streets.

Good night, Cubao!

The gnome singers hold a concert dedicated to the moon.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with three syllables in your name: Note that your co-faculty members are generating intrigues about you and others. Fight back if you have to. Everyone should knowhow tough you really are.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

Mike sends me a new batch of joss sticks.

Worked half an hour on second layer.

Worked an hour on first layer.

Good morning, Cubao!

The day unfurls like a bolt of white cloth.

Good night, Cubao!

Dreams of April already begin midway of March.

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You with seven syllables in your name: I'm hoping that you can model for one of my paintings for Maryhill School of Theology. I am but halfway through that project.

Two deliveries arrived for Angelique.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Asked Q. to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

Finished reading Problem at Pollensa Bay last night. A fine collection of short stories, some of them deliciously noir.

Reading While the Light Lasts tonight. It's another collection of her short stories.

Rayven watered the plants in the roof deck, front balcony, side balcony, and ground-floor gardens.

Worked half an hour on construction lines.

Construction lines are done. Will commence layering tomorrow.

Swung by the neighborhood grocery and did minor groceries.

Glowering skies above Cubao.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun celebrates life. The sun celebrates everything.

Good night, Cubao!

Moonlight sparkles on sapphires of different colors.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with six syllables in your name: Be wary of those who covet what you have, especially because most of them are your friends.

A delivery arrived. Bought the rider dinner at M.'s cafe.

Asked Rayven to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

The air-con service center's auditor dropped by to check the service persons' work.

Work now done.

Worked another half-hour on construction lines.

Worked half an hour on construction lines.

The air-con service persons arrived.

Good morning, Cubao!

The family members snuggle in bed a little longer on chilly mornings.

Good night, Cubao!

On chilly nights the gnomes light bottled candles in bronze braziers.

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You with nine syllables in your name: Give priority to your studies; do not allow yourself to be distracted by other interests. Obtain your degree and pursue a gainful career, and test your marketability. Your family's security depends on it.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Asked Q. to bring some food over to M/'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

A delivery arrived for Angelique.

Worked another half hour on construction lines.

Finally--worked half an hour on construction lines.

This painting begins today, March 13, 2023, my father's birthday.

Sorry, no more visitors allowed.

Two crystal balls were delivered yesterday.

This morning Aubrey's new air-conditioning unit arrived. It is scheduled for installation tomorrow.

Renovation work ongoing at M.'s cafe.

Still haven't begun my Prologue Painting.

My father's birthday. Lighting a white candle and lamps at our family altar and columbary.

He was born on the 13th, I on the 31st.

He was a Tiger, I am a Rabbit.

Good morning, Cubao!

The messengers of the sun deliver parcels to front porches.

Good night, Cubao!

A local local should be able to offer the neighborhood as many services as possible.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with six syllables in your name: Be consistent--in your career, in your family life, in your love life, and in your social life. It is one of the desirable qualities of manhood.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Night chores.

M. has already added a noodle counter to his cafe. It might be open 24/7.

Your Messenger message:

"Hi Pai. How’s your day? I want to ask about something.What would you do if you are interested to make friends or introduce yourself into the other beings if you are in a new place. Would there be elementals,fairies,gnomes or elves around here? There were some things appearing in my mind the last time i when i got here.The images of the forest with some beings that not really clear to me.Hope I am not such a disturbance to you.Have good night there Pai!

"I used to run around the forest during the summer.After i jog,i would go inside of it and will pick berries.Though the feeling is like im being watched,it was peaceful and have a unique quiteness of the nature there."

My reply:

Hello _____!

Just continue communing with Nature by staying quietly in the forest. The elementals will eventually scan you and your intentions, and they will take the initiative by making contact with you. 

Back from lunch at the center with family, celebrating in advance my father's birthday and my birthday this month.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun travels along the main highways and roads. 

Goodies from my Baguio City friends. Love those Team Lakay T-shirts!

Good night, Cubao!

The enchantment of even a brief, magical meeting lasts for many weeks to come.

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You with six syllables in your name: It is all right to be involved with social issues and to join movements for worthwhile causes, but never sacrifice your personal life and your happiness in doing so.

Back home from dinner at the center with Baguio friends.

Asked Rayven to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

Fried chicken delivery.

Staggered lunchtimes.

A welder is now assembling a new, iron food service stand in the driveway for M.'s cae.

Ordered ten, five-gallon jugs alkaline water.

Good morning, Cubao!

The clouds are packets of white gummy worms.

Good night, Cubao!

Everyone in the household is preparing for a cozy night in bed.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with six syllables in your name: At a certain point in life, every man should lose interest in power symbols, otherwise they are mere indications of an extended adolescence.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Asked Rayven to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

The last piece of cradled canvas for my next exhibit now rests on an easel, awaiting construction lines which I might do tomorrow or Sunday. This will be the canvas for my Prologue Painting.

There is no sight more pleasing to a painter than a new, blank canvas. It always feels like the Dawn of Creation.

Sunset Delivery

Look, Dick, look!

Just before twilight the framers finally delivered two framed paintings for my next exhibit and a piece of cradled canvas, the last piece, for the Prologue Painting for my exhibit. As it turned out, the delay was due to the death of one of the framers' 13-year-old boy.

I started painting for this exhibit in January 2022. It's been a year and three months already, too long a wait for me, and I don't now if I want to exhibit again after this.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun fairies brush the blades of grass with golden sunshine.

Good night, Cubao!

A cozy night at the travelers' inn during the screening of a really scary horror movie. 

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You with six syllables in your name: How far have you gone since you graduated? Are you ahead of your former classmates or are they ahead of you?

At this point in your life, what do you really want to achieve and make of yourself?

Asked Rayven to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

Q. and Bertod walked Yukiko Taka and Cloudy and then gave Keiko Kashigawa, Yuki, and Cloudy an anti-flea shampoo.

Asked Q. to buy banana fritters on sticks at a hawker's stand.

Also bought a sliced, seedless wastermelon and a bag of peeled Indian mangoes.

Angelique arrived from work.

Good day, Cubao!

The electric guitar is the instrument of nostalgic afternoons.

Good night, Cubao!

Night prayers need not be articulated, but spirit guides like hearing them even if they know what we want and what we need.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with two syllables in your name: Continue to explore and expand your talents, but make sure that you are able to gainfully retire when it is time for you to throw in the towel.

Asked Rayven to bring some food over to M.s' cafe staff.

Night chores. Did the dishes but asked Neil to lean the dog cage and feed and water the dogs.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

Good morning, Cubao!

The day gnomes make deliveries on mountain bikes.

 Good night, Cubao!

The travelers' inn adds four double-deckers for additional caregivers.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with nine syllables in your name: Love the spirit children who come to you, as a parent loves her own children. They will bring you protection, success, and prosperity.

Dinner at home with Angelique and Aubrey.

Asked Rayven to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie.

Your Messenger message:

"Hi Sir Tony. I always dream of our hometown in the Philippines. I meet the usual people there, those who are still alive and those who died. But I never stop by our house. I just pass and continue walking until I find myself in another place.

"By the way, the entities or elements stealing our money seem to have left. I hope they won't bother us again.

"I hope you are doing well."

My reply:

Hello ______!

Your dreams are the result of your denial of homesickness. That is the only meaning you should attribute to them.

Good morning, Cubao!

The clouds are towers of white pancakes.

Good night, Cubao!

The gnome children bring in fragrant flowers from the garden and place them on bedside dishes.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with one syllable in your name: Your fear of committing yourself has been preventing you from finding others who are willing to commit themselves to you.

Know what you really want, and go for it.

Your messenger message:

"Good evening Sir Tony. It's me again. We have a little family problem. I prayed to my papa and brother. I dreamt of my papa. I saw him enter our front door. He is healthy and went normally in the house up to the kitchen, I noticed there are 2 form of shadow of 2 people in the kitchen parang taong putik. I am so happy to see him but he can't see or hear me. Tjat's all I remember. Bakit po kaya?

"Also my lola died recently, we were able to discuss all things including when she will see my brother and papa again. She promised me that she will visit me especially with my brother. On her deathbed she saw my father beside me but never my brother. I'm wondering why? I once dreamt of my brother treating us in a restaurant in new york with my mother and my daughter but thats it. "We are a grieving family. Their death affected our relationships. We try to be happy and move on but deep inside we are still hurting. "Thank you for taking time to read my messages. Hope you can give me some answer."

My reply:

Hello ____!

First, when we dream of the deceased they are not necessarily actual visits from them. More often than not, they are simply personifications of the values they represented to us when they were living, and some of these values have been internalized in our psyche,

The shadowy figures in the kitchen could very well symbolize your resistance to the idea that your father has passed on. That you father cannot hear or see you in your dream reinforces that idea.

As to the second dream, it is possible that your brother has reincarnated in your karmic group, but that you are not even aware of it.

Second, everybody dies--and almost no one, both the living and the dying, are ever prepared for it. Let time take its normal course of deaths and births without worrying about where the deceased have actually gone and without worrying about what else we need to tell them or hear from them.

Trust the deceased to be able to take care of themselves--as they must trust you.to be able to take care of yourself, whether in grief or not.

Another delivery arrived for Angelique.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Asked David to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: An evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie. Halfway through Problem at Pollensa Bay.

Angelique at work; Aubrey and Roi arrived from a morning out.

Two deliveries arrived for Angelique.

Another maintenance day. Q. cleaned the outdoor writing area on the side porch. Rayven watered the plants in the roof deck, side balcony, front balcony, and ground floor gardens. Now everyone is cleaning the alcove and re-installing the glass shelves there.

Called the framers. Two framed paintings are done, but they are still working on the cradled canvas for Joel's portrait/the Prologue Painting for my exhibit.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun is the calyx of a cosmic flower.

Good night, Cubao!

The gnome community will hold a night parade before everyone retires to bed.

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You with three syllables in your name: It is not yet the end of your journey, though you have weathered many a storm and emerged triumphant.

Jazz arrived.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Asked Bertod to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Neil is washing the dishes and then cleaning the dog cage tonight.

My elder son Nelson's death anniversary (1998). Lighting joss sticks and lamps at our family altar.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun fries golden omelettes on the park benches.

Your Messenger message: 

"Sir tony good evening po... am talking to one of my friends right now... may doppelganger cya, kanina uli nqkita ng isang friend namin. Told him that i did my thesis about spirit questors. So he asked me what to do with his double.... i wanted to consult with you... please help sir... last week, another friend of mone posted the same issue on his fb wall and sombody told him to burn his clothes."

My reply:

Hello ______!

Doppelgangers are nothing to be worried about. They are merely playful elementals who love mimicking humans and putting their physical identities. After shops and restaurants shut down, for example, they love pretending that they are customers, waiters, and salespersons, though only the sensitive can see them. I even recall that, years ago, during a visit to the Malacanang Museum, they lay on the beds and pretended to have sex.

If any person is particularly disturbed about having a doppelganger, he should go to the nearest tree on his property and make an offering of five grains round the base of the tree, or else pour a bottle of inexpensive, red wine in libation on its roots.

Angelique and Aubrey arrived home after an afternoon massage at a spa.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Asked Neil to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff. Neil also washed the dishes and cleaned the dog cage tonight,

Maintenance day. Q. cleaning the foyer and writing area, Raven watering the plants in the roof deck, side balcony, front balcony, and side porch gardens, and Brian and Deniz installing a Turkish chandelier lamp in the alcove.

Bought a bag of Indian mangoes, a box of biko, and an entire, sliced watermelon and had it sliced. 

Good morning, Cubao!

Day clouds bleach under the scorching sun.

Back home from jalan-jalan at the center. Neil and Q. escorted me. Went to the bank, changed dollars to pesos, paid our electric and phone bills, had lunch out, and sent some money to my younger son Chito.

Glad to have covered a lot of things today.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun solders together steel plates of sky.

I spent every summer of my boyhood and youth in our ancestral house in San Fernando, Pampanga. Every year, during that time, an annual carnival was set up on the grounds of the Pampanga High School, which had the most massive grandstand made entirely of wood. Our house was a few meters away from the back of the grandstand. At night I would drift off to sleep with the sounds of the carnival floating through the tall windows. This is the music the main tent always played:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDmHy-kkERM&list=RDhDmHy-kkERM&index=1

The music haunts me to this very day, and I will forever associate it with my summer nights. Years later, of course, I would write the musical Tolda for Ateneo Children's Theatre. 

Good night, Cubao!

The house gnomes are a-bustle with night duties.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with four syllables in your name: Do not announce yourself to the world without first being sure of who and what you are. Until you are sure, be content to stay in the background as a mere observer.

Dinner at home with Angelique; Aubrey preparing for her night shift.

Asked Rayven to bring some food over to M.'s cafe staff.

Good morning, Cubao!

The sun strews golden dust on ripe rice fields.

Good night, Cubao!

The dragon tree bears golden coins and showers them at midnight.

One Message For One Of 2,500 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with four syllables in your name: Do not lend money. Neither should you borrow money.