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		<title>The Prayer &#8211; for Mommy with much eternal love from your loving husband, daughters, sons-in-law and grandkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I pray you&#8217;ll be our eyes, and watch us where we go, And help us to be wise, in times when we don&#8217;t know Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace To a place where we&#8217;ll be safe&#8230; La luce che tu [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1487&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Most Precious Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                  Another storm has passed. You fought valiantly. There were moments when I had to focus hard and draw strength from you as I felt myself slowly splintering into millions of pieces as I watched you struggle to breathe. Those solitary seconds when I thought I was too late and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1475&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making a happy 2011&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! 2011 greets me on wings of eternal hope. This is my deepest and most heartfelt prayer. For me 2010 overwhelmed with a maelstrom of emotions, a roller coaster gathering speed as it raced past the last quarter. So many highs and lows tightly enveloped my family culminating on a whisper of fervent hope and a sliver of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1464&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How Dad won Mom&#8217;s heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by GM As far as I can recall, my childhood memories are rich with my dad crooning along to tunes by Ol&#8217; Blue Eyes (especially the earlier songs of Frank when my dad would rhapsodize over Frank&#8217;s impeccable phrasing and sublime timing);  or tapping to the beat of cool Bing Crosby and Frank&#8217;s duet &#8220;What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1408&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a song, deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very still It is so easy to listen to my song. When my eyes are open and I am so busy and moving and busy, If I take time and listen very hard, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1390&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Child of Sorrow</title>
		<link>http://rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/child-of-sorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Poem by Song Xiaoxian Translation: 2005, Simon Patton The child of sorrow speaks unclearly, he can hardly bring himself to talk of his own difficulties,   He laughs a lot he’s always biting on his lower lip, his riches are as meagre as my kindness. He doesn’t have many clothes ; every night, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1346&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do we all hope for as we welcome the New Year? A better year.  No more wars&#8230;no more killing&#8230;no more acts of violence&#8230;no more fighting&#8230;whether it is an argument over a parking spot or bullying in schools or sadly violent disputes even in our very own homes.  How can we stop the fighting? How can we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1327&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soaking up a local culture</title>
		<link>http://rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/soaking-up-a-local-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while&#8230;I know&#8230;hope you all have been very well and getting ready for the holidays. I have been on an Asian trip recently and I never tire of learning about a country&#8217;s culture. I try to experience as much as I can. Here are some of the unique and wondrous things I&#8217;ve seen on my travels.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1297&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: The Flags of My Mother</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1232&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1227&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1224&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1219&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: A Fine Romance</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1138&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: My Wonderland</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1132&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1128&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1123&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vignette: Of little angels and healing petals</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1117&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Longfellow Goes A Long Long Way&#8230;</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1100&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1085&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pearls to Live By</title>
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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&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1090&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rainbowsmiles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3984810&amp;post=1087&amp;subd=rainbowsmiles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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