Children, Books and Life Lessons. Kids, life with kids, books, reading, writing, lessons for life. Sunday, March 30, 2014. For the Class of 2014. Once upon a time, thirty years ago, exactly on this same date, March 29, on this same afternoon, in this same gymnasium, I was seated in one of the seats you are sitting now, looking up to our lady speaker then standing here in my place, who had just placed 2. In the national bar examinations. What a short physical distance 30 years can make, from there to here! .

Tomorrow morning when you wake up. And the sun does not appear. Ah ha-a-ah I, I will be here. If in the dark we lose sight of love. Hold my hand and have no fear. 8216;Cause ah ha-a-ah I, I will be here. When you feel like being quiet. When you need to speak your mind. And I will be here. When the laughter turns to crying. Through the winning, losing and trying.

My life yet again, in what is surely the umpteenth time, I browsed the great Internet for clues. Hours of browsing helpful how-tos, bright ideas, tips and tricks, left me with no idea where to start. Everything flew by me, nothing stuck. What became clear though, was that the amount of stuff accumulating in my house, my work, my thoughts, my days, my life is getting to be overwhelming. And look, I can even run in them! That friend, I visited him in L.

Wednesday, November 02, 2011. Sunday, February 27, 2011. Friday, August 13, 2010. More than three years ago. I would have chafed at the thought. That I could not speak to any man. In the laughing, teasing, flirting way.

Being Contemplative in a Secular World. Photo credits to Sophy Laughing.