Resourceful Pedicab Peddler

Dr Abe V Rotor 
Living with Nature - School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday [www.pbs.gov.ph]

  Pedicab Peddler, photo by the author, Fairview QC 2016

    Peddling is no easy task, but it can be fun,
     and makes others join with a lens on hand;
      a thin line across work and game makes life
     a little lighter, as the world goes around. ~

Happy Mother's Day!

 "Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime."                                                           ~William Shakespeare (dramatist, poet)

Dr Abe V Rotor

Mother and daughter on graduation day

Mother is perhaps the most popular subject in all fields of endeavor and in all walks of life. It is one of the most powerful words, specially when used in personification, analogy, simile and  other figures of speech. It is used to describe both animate and inanimate objects, often putting "life" in an inanimate thing. Mother pertains to origin and everything has an origin - innate and immanent, and from the time of conception, be it biological, idea or thought. The meaning of mother is readily absorbed in the human mind without undue restraint it is closest to love itself.

Of the definitions of a Mother I have chosen these quotations from famous men and women whose success is undoubtedly traced to the greatest queen and ultimate image of Mother Earth.

But how little do we know the vast goodness, beauty and magnificence of a Mother! Lo, to us who only see them through a keyhole, and not have the key to unlock the door.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown (author)

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Adabella Radici (author)

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving (author)

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln (US President)

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck (author)
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes (philosopher, historian and author)

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~Honoré de Balzac (philosopher)
 
My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty (actress)

Happy Mother's Day!

Surrealism on the Grassroots: Headless Doll Guard

Dr Abe V Rotor
UST Faculty of Arts and Letters: Photo interpretation on the level of philosophy.
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM 8 to 9 Evening Class, Monday to Friday

                    Headless doll (a cross in its place) as a parking sign (Commonwealth Ave., QC)                                          

If art originates from thoughts cum feelings,

     could it also originate from feelings alone,

that creeps into the darkness of life

     gnawing the being to the bone?

If one finds art in a piteous parking sign,

     is it akin to compassion, to a kind soul -

needless that a headless doll speak

     of morbidity, but of a pleading call?

In this corner the artist calls it surreal,

     but the soul rises above reason and heart -

its emptiness filled with some sanity,

     that surrealism is neither fate nor art. ~

Wish I were a butterfly

Dr Abe V Rotor 
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM 8 to 9 Evening Class, Monday to Friday

Top, Anna wears a pair of butterflies; Anna wears a pair of butterfly wings.  Tagbilaran, Bohol 

I wear a pair of butterflies

     clinging on my hair, 

and they whisper, "Come,

     to our lovely lair

a garden of morning sun

    and every day fair."

Wish I were a butterfly,

     and flutter around,

from flower to flower , 

     sans time, sans bound, 

to see the world from top down,

     for humans to astound. 

Give me freedom, oh butterfly,

    your wings, your lovely pose, 

your scepter, your antenna pair; 

    your secret with the rose;

"Foolish little girl," it whispers,

    "remember Icarus." ~

Respite with Nature on the Wall

Mural by Dr Abe V Rotor

Lagro QC, 2016

Living with Nature - School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]

Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio

738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday [www.pbs.gov.ph]

 

Take the road from school to home

     to where a river idly flows,

the sun streaming among the trees,

     where a waterfall glows;

It’s a moment with nature to say,

“all is well at the end of the day.” ~