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		<title>Vignette: The Flags of My Mother</title>
		<link>http://rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/vignette-the-flags-of-my-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AHM.

Mom was holding two jobs when we lived in Gagalangin, Manila. The first one was a full time teaching position with the Faculty of Torres High School which was one short ride from our apartment. Her second job involved teaching English at a private school in Sampaloc near the Justo Albert Elementary School. This school was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1232&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: The Flags of My Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AHM.

 
He may not have been as brilliant, ebullient or colorful as Tios (Uncles) Andres, Fred, Maning and others. He was frequently content to stay in the background during family gatherings. But in his quiet, unassuming manner, he was a keen observer of the human condition and was really in his element when he was working and meeting the demands as Division [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1227&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: Stealing Glances</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By AHM.
She was a vision &#8211; the little girl who suddenly appeared at the window of a house across from mine. She stared back at me, her face barely above the window sill, as mine must have been from my side. Then she looked over her shoulder at someone who must have called her, glanced back at me and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1224&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: Liberation &#8211; SPAM, chewing gum and ice cream mix</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AHM.

There were heavy footsteps on the street. We peered out of the cellar window and watched pairs of boots pass by. These footwear and trousers were different from those of the Japanese &#8211; heavy and made of leather. A pair stopped by the window. Then a leg knelt and a face suddenly appeared. It belonged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1219&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: A Fine Romance</title>
		<link>http://rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/vignette-a-fine-romance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                             By AHM.
   &#8221; A fine romance, my friend this is;  A fine romance with no kisses!&#8221;

 
 
Mom was born in Bocaue, Bulacan but grew up in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.  She did her elementary grades in Cabanatuan, from 1912 to 1919 and finished as valedictorian of her class. She then went to the UP High where Dad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1138&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: My Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/vignette-my-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AHM.
 To most Filipinos, Balintawak was where Andres Bonifacio made his famous cry which started the revolution against Spain, and that is where his famous monument stands. But to my family it truly was the site of the House of Hizon. The house which Andres Hizon built (or bought) and called &#8220;Fair Haven&#8221;.
To me &#8220;Fair [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1132&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: My Precious Boyhood Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AHM.

HOMECOMING  -  Daddy comes home
 My Uncle Mario answered the insistent knocking at the door. Then I heard exclamations of surprise and then laughter as Uncle Mario called up to my mom from the stairwell &#8220;It’s Biloy!”
 Mom jumped up from the dining room table and practically flew down the stairs. There was much laughter and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1128&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: The War Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AHM.
A Wounded Soldier
I don&#8217;t know who brought him to the house. I was 2 or 3 years old then. It might have been Uncle Fred or Uncle Andres. Who else would know where our house was? But one evening there was a knock on the door and men in dirty khaki uniforms came in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1123&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: Of little angels and healing petals</title>
		<link>http://rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/vignette-of-little-angels-and-healing-petals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AHM. 

Recently seeing my small grandchildren (all girls) brought back memories when my own 3 older children were invited (so many years ago) by Mother Angelina Fernando, the RVM Superior of St. Michael&#8217;s College, to be among the angels who were tasked to shower with flower petals the meeting between the Resurrected Jesus and the sorrowful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1117&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Longfellow Goes A Long Long Way&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/a-little-longfellow-goes-a-long-long-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
  Life is but an empty dream!?
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
  And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!         
  And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
  Was not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1100&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>She Walks in Beauty by Lord George Gordon Byron</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that&#8217;s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
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		<title>Pearls to Live By</title>
		<link>http://rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/pearls-to-live-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you measure success? To laugh often, and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1090&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Melodic Genius of William Butler Yeats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When You are Old
 When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&blog=3984810&post=1087&subd=rainbowsmiles&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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