An afternoon with Spirit Questors and former students. We held our third Bilbo Baggins session inside the cafe, where it was dry and warm.

Then we had snacks in the cafe, Sharlene brought vegan pizza and I treated the grou0p to there kinds of buffalo wings: sweet chili, parmesan cheese, and honey lemon.

Good morning Cubao!

The clouds are tubs of tropical fruits.

One way to cleanse you aura is to change the kind of music you've been listening to.

Good night, Cubao!

Rearrange your rooms in order to renew the energy in your house. Pay especial attention to dead spaces.

One Message For One Of 2,900 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with four syllables in your name: Have compassion even for those who hurt you, for their plight is a lot worse than what you see. Understand, forgive, and sleep well like the truly blessed. 

Staggered dinnertimes.

Night chores.

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

M., Rayven, and I spent the entire afternoon doing the final reorganization of our foyer,.

You did not do anything at the right time, and now it is too late to do anything at all.

Justice and vengeance have shelf lives.

No one ever notices a fish's cold tears.

Good morning, Cubao!

The dawn spray-paints the sky a silver-gray.

One of the most bitter realizations in life is that no one really loves anyone completely and unconditionally due to many moments of selfishness, changes of mood, disappointments, and disillusionments.

Good night, Cubao!

The male gnomes soak in a communal hot tub.

One Message For One Of 2,900 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with two syllables in your name: Don't even attempt to match or outmatch an act that is hard to follow. You will only end up embarrassing yourself.

Birthday supper at home with Angelique, Aubrey, Jazz, and Roi.

Night chores.

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

Not everything that works for one person will also work for others.

Wearing Gardenia by Elizabeth Taylor.

Smells exactly like the fragrant white blossoms in my mother's garden bush, which I recall from many years ago.

Happy 24th Birthday to my granddaughter Aubrey!

My baby! Grandpa loves you!

Good morning, Cubao!

The sky is brushed with high-gloss varnish.

"The Sound of Silence" and "Rhinestone Cowboy" can be sung together.

Good night, Cubao!

Fairies bathe in hidden lakes at night,

One Message For One Of 2,900 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with four syllables in your name: Your art should be improving with your life Your life should be improving with your art. If neither is, something is wrong somewhere.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Night chores.

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

I don't lend out my books because I don't want other people's DNA smeared all over their covers and pages..

A man who has a close relationship with one or more elementals will always find it difficult to manage relationships with the opposite sex.

Aubrey arrived home; Angelique arriving tomorrow.

Thought we'd have lamb and chicken biryani for Aubrey's birthday dinner tomorrow, but the granddaughters went ahead and ordered something else.

He listened to his supervisor's opinions about his wife's dress and mannerisms, that is why he divorced her.

Now that he is retired, he wants her back.

It is the survivor of bullying who outshines everyone else in old age.

Good morning, Cubao!

The clouds are lawn sprinklers on the blue grass of sky.

Good night, Cubao!

The fairies dine in the garden under colorful lanterns.

One Message For One Of 2,900 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with five syllables in your name: It is always safest to stay in the background and allow others to make fools of themselves.

Staggered dinnertimes.

Night chores.

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

Do not paint to decorate rooms with visual descriptions.

Paint to open portals by which viewers' minds can enter the worlds of your Creation,

July 23, 2023

Spirit Questors and former students visit on a Monday afternoon.

For some reason this photo reminds me of Ip Man and his students.

Photo off Vanessa Bicomong's camera.

Good morning, Cubao!

The day is a series of well-planned meals.

"Gathering spirituality is the foundation of all magic techniques."

--Shu Ying as Preceptor Xiaoyingzhu, in Episode 12 of The Longest Promise

Good night, Cubao!

Pixies bathe in fallen raindrops under the light of the moon.

One Message For One Of 2,900 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with five syllables in your name: Save your money for yourself. Let the government deal with disasters without relying on the private sector.

Dinner at home with Rayven.

Did a Miss Marple night for myself: two very soft-boiled eggs in a steel egg cup (I can't find porcelain ones) with a pinch of salt and dry toast  Rayven, of course, had everything else on the table.

Night chores.

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

Plan for a stable and financially secure retirement, not for a spectacular career.

Good noon, Cubao!

Cold mists glide away like curtains revealing an enchanted stage.

Everyone goes forth and multiplies regardless of their religion, and the best form of all is touching not the hearts of others but their minds.

Prostitution is never funny, for it is a form of archetypal poverty and despair rooted in ancient Asian times when even parents sold off their children to pay off their debts.

Good night, Cubao!

It is a good idea to light lanterns at your front doors and windows again.

One Message For One Of 2,900 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with five syllables in your name: Stay at home and stay indoors. Hungry ghosts are already roaming the streets, though 23 nights too early.

Dinner at home with Rayven.

Night chores.

My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, ad then snuggling in bed with a Netflix movie.

Good morning, Cubao!

A thousand sylphs ride on the day's breezes. 

Good night, Cubao!

Do not make promises you cannot keep, for promises not kept will always haunt you at night.

One Message For One of 2,900 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year

You with five syllables in your name: Feed yourself without feeling obliged to feed others, for food always costs good money that is better saved for rainy days.

Dinner at home with Rayven.

Angelique and Jazz swung by because Angelique had to pick uo something from her bedroom. 

Night chiores.

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

July 24, 2023

Spirit Questors and former students in front of our dragon tree.

Photo by Vanessa Bicomong

Monday, July 24, 2023

Second round of items given to Spirit Questors and former students. Afterward we had spicy beef with vegetables and soda at M.'s cafe.

Thanks, guys, for helping me unclutter!

A third round of unwanted items to be given away will be announced very soon.