Usapang Bayan December 18, 2024
Happy Expressions of Home
this Christmas Season 2024
Home is “heaven on earth.”- avr
Add your own thoughts and experiences
and share them with others.*
Ms Melly C Tenorio, host; and Dr Abe V Rotor, guest
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Lesson on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School on Air): Home has as many expressions as people's thoughts and feelings about it. Let's take a glance at what respondents say.
Top: Bahay Kubo in oil by AVR patterned after the song of the same title;
Lower photos: western bungalow cottage; typical bamboo and nipa house.
1. For a home beauty and function are one, in the same way as in biology – morphology and physiology.
2. Aesthetics is an art – it is both natural and man-made; it is a harmonious combination of the two.
3. Sanctuary is a home, simulated from the natural habitat of an organism or group of organisms. Sanctuary implies values of kindness, care, respect and understanding.
4. Generally, there are two parts of our garden to landscape – the public area and the private area, which are self explanatory.
Restored 18th century ancestral home
5. Home is a call, ancient craving, in fact, biological like the salmon and the dove. It is the same homing instinct of the balikbayan.
6. Home is a fortress and a lighthouse.
7. Home is made by man and perfected by his hopes and dreams. We can reach the state of perfection, if only we do the best we can.
8. These are great Filipino artists whose works contributed to having our happy home of today: Nicanor Abelardo (music), Fernando Amorsolo (painting).
Light through the kapis window brings in warmth and nostalgia in this old home.
9. These are great Filipino scientists whose works are worthy as well in building an integrated home: Nemesio Mendiola (agriculture/gardening); Deogracias Villadolid (freshwater fishery), Leon Ma Guerrero (medicinal plants), Angel Arguelles (organic farming).
10. Other great Filipino women whose works likewise contributed to the making of a happy home: Fe del Mundo (health, specially children’s healthcare), Maria Y Orosa (home economics/food art).
11. Even how inadequate may be our home – even if it is located along the railway - it comes to full bloom when Christmas time comes.
12. A home is a movable feast, referring to Ernest Hemingway’s early novel The Movable Feast.
Home is a workshop. It is a place to discover and develop talents.
13. A home must be efficient in protecting the dwellers from ultraviolet rays that causes skin cancer, unburnt carbon and acid rain that cause allergy and other ailments.
14. A home is surrounded by trees. Trees buffer disturbing noise from traffic, but they are good resonators of music and conversation.
15. A 20-year old acacia tree gives a cooling effect in its shade the equivalence of 10-window type air conditioner 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, virtually without any direct cost.
16. Have plants in and around your home. Plants give off O2 as a by-product of photosynthesis. It is good to health.
17. The best model for a garden is the Filipino style, because it is patterned after the structure of a tropical rain forest.
18. A home garden simulates a tropical rain forest which is basically made up of four stories just like a tall building: ground plants, shrubs, bushes and small trees, canopy layer, and emergents.
19. The most common canopy trees are most fruit trees, like santol, avocado, mango, while the most common emergent is the coconut.
Home is a greenery
20. A home is compared to a bird's nest. After the chicks have grown up and have learned to fly, they leave the nest. The difference from that of the bird's nest is that, the home is not abandoned. Now and then. the children visit their parents (and grandparents).
21. Life and love emanate, reside and grow in the home.
Home Art Gallery
22. Home is “heaven on earth.”
23. Home is a rocking chair with long arms.
24. Home can be missed sorely like Heidi in Sipyri’s novel, about an orphan girl who was separated from her grandfather in the Alps mountain. Only when she was able to go back to her home with his grandfather that she found her world complete gain.
Country farm house, Peñablanca, Pampanga
25. A broken home is the most difficult to bear – broken by divorce, misunderstanding, quarrel, by early death, by prolonged absence – and most especially, by apparent lovelessness. If you belong to this kind of home there are two things you can do. Rebuild it, pick up the pieces and mend them together. The other is to make a new home yourself, and make it the ideal home of your dreams, the ideal home which is the highest expression of our worthiness on earth, and worthiness in heaven. ~
Traditional Thai House, Bangkok; Wigwam - dwelling of aboriginal
Indians in Manitoba, Canada; Eskimo igloo, Alaska
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Meditation and Reflection
We may first encounter our own hapless kababayan victims of a series of typhoons and floods, and earlier, a long drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon. As of this writing I have seen on TV conflagration cases destroying hundreds of homes almost in an instant, not to mention spontaneous wildfires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Let us support legitimate campaigns and movements, contribute to their cause in helping the victims rehabilitate their homes, reunite with their families, rebuild their communities. Let us help them in many ways within our own capacity, small it may be. We know that a good deed is never small. Let us be catalysts of hope and joy. We know that happiness multiplies whenever and wherever we divide it, so with Love and Peace. - A V Rotor
Typhoon and flood scenes
Scenes of Davao del Sur earthquake 2019 left),
and Mt. Kanlaon, Occ Negros eruption, Dec. 9, 2024
Part 2 - Home, Sweet Home in 50 Ways
"Home provides gives us the sense of belonging and comfort. Home takes the cold out of the body and spirit."
Home on the Farm in acrylic by the author, 1999 Here is a beautiful poem to start the lesson. In the movie, The King and I, Anna the English teacher sang the theme of the song, Home Sweet Home. It was typical in her time when Europeans left their homes and became pioneers in the New World, which was to become the United States of America. Others found the Orient, and for Teacher Anna, it was a special arrangement for her to serve the King of Siam (Thailand) as tutor to his children.
Home Sweet HomeJohn Howard PayneMusic by Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855)(Arranged for the violin and piano by Henry Farmer)
‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home;A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there,Which seek through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere.Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home!
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain;O, give me my lowly thatched cottage again!The birds singingly gaily, that came to my call –Give me them – and the peace of mind, dearer than all.Home, Home sweet, sweet Home.There’s no place like Home! There’s no place like Home!
There are 101 definitions of home. Here is a short list, compliled from our radio audience and website visitors.
1. Home is a roof for everyone, residents and guests.
2. Home is a wall with large windows that let the sun and the breeze in.
3. Home is where fish in the aquarium sparkle in the morning’s sun.
4. Home is a baby smiling, of children playing.
5. Home is a faithful husband and wife.
6. Home is a “place for everything and everything in its place,” but not always.
7. Home is dad and mom waiting for us from school.
8. Home is a workshop for hobbies and inventions.
9. Home is where our dog lies on the doormat waiting for its master.
10. Home is a litter of puppies and kittens.
11. Home is a rooster crowing, nature’s alarm clock.
12. Home is a house lizard’s crispy announcement of a guest coming.
13. Home is a frog croaking in the rain.
14. Home is a safari of wildlife – from insects to migratory birds.
15. Home is a warm embrace of a cat.
16. Home is a cup of coffee, a sip of wine, a newspaper.
17. Home is a warm bath, a cold shower, a bath tub.
18. Home is National Geographic, Time Magazine, Daily Inquirer.
19. Home is ripe tomato, succulent radish, dangling stringbeans,
20. Home is a brooding mother hen in her nest.
21. Home is fresh eggs everyday.
22. Home is the sound of birds and crickets.
23. Home is the sweet smell of flowers, falling leaves, swaying branches in the wind.
24. Home is the sweet smell of the earth after the first rain in May.
25. Home is a singing cicada in the tree.
26. Home is a swarming of gamugamo in the evening.
27. Home is a sala too small for so many friends.
28. Home is a cabinet of books, a study table, a computer.
29. Home is Beethoven, Mozart, Abelardo, Santiago.
30. Home is Charlotte Church, Josh Groban, Sharon Cuneta.
31. Home is Amorsolo. Picasso, Van Gogh.
32. Home is potpourri of appetizing recipes, of the proverbial grandmother apple pie.
33. Home is pinakbet, lechon, karekare, suman, bibingka.
34. Home is a garden of roses, a grass lawn to lie on.
35. Home is an herbarium of plants, a gene bank.
36. Home is home for biodiversity, a living museum.
37. Home is doing repair that has no end.
38. Home is disposing old newspapers, bottles, metal scraps, used clothes.
39. Home is a midnight candle before an exam.
40. Home is a shoulder, a pillow, to cry on.
41. Home is Noche Buena.
42. Home is fireworks on New Year.
43. Home is general cleaning on weekends.
44. Home is a soft bed that soothes tired nerves and muscles.
45. Home is a fire place, a hearth, which takes the cold out of the body and spirit.
46. Home is a Prodigal Son returning, Good Samaritan.
47. Home is a round table where thanksgiving prayer is said.
48. Home is laughter and music, prose and poetry.
49. Home is forgiving, rejoicing, celebrating.
50. Home is angelus and rosary hour.
To sum it all, Home is Home Sweet Home.~
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