Thursday, March 31, 2016

Looking up

Sometimes it's all about the angle.

From down here the flowers seem huge, sky-high, unreachable.
From across the screen the flowers seem to be real.
From behind the bunch the flowers seem to be fresh and crisp.

But really, the flowers are fake. The flowers are normal in size. The flowers are made of plastic.

Nonetheless, the flowers give me joy even if they are not real.
But, surely real flowers would give real joy!









Raising bilingual kids

I am pretty proud about our eldest being able to speak my mother tongue (Filipino). As young as one year old we taught her to speak Tagalo...