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The Japanese Farmer and his Orchard

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From my cousin, Donnie.  A beautiful story Heart2Heart would like to pass on.

“Wanted to share with you a short story that I heard from a priest during his homily yesterday (Greenbelt Chapel). I thought its a nice message to receive during this first week of lent and right after the Tsunami.”

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It was mid-day when a farmer was tending to the fruit trees in his orchard. His orchard was a hill that looked out into the sea. He thanked the Lord as he looked upon the abundance, the size the fruits of his tree. He spent nearly a lifetime nurturing each tree since they were just seeds.

He then turned his head to look out into the sea; he noticed a huge wave moving very quickly towards land. It was a Tsunami and he thanked God that he, his orchard and his family would be safe because they were on the hill. He looked down into the coast and from the distance saw his friends gathered for a party; they were enjoying each other’s company and were completely oblivious to the disaster that was about to hit them. The farmer panicked; he had to help his friends and he had to do it very fast. The only solution he could think of was to draw their attention by burning down his orchard. He quickly set about burning his orchard. He prayed hard that his friends would see it, be alerted, and somehow do something to save themselves from the approaching Tsunami. The people in the party saw the orchard burning. Some of them saw the orchard burning, stopped what they were doing and enjoying in the party. They were worried about the the farmer and his orchard; they rushed up the hill to help save the farmer, his family and his orchard from the fire. THEY WERE SAVED from the TSUNAMI. They thought they were doing something good, a favor for the farmer. In the end, it was the farmer who did them a favor at a huge sacrifice to himself. The others who ignored the fire and thus did not rush up the hill perished.

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And Now You’re Mine

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 And now you’re mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.

Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.

The night turns on its invisible wheels,

and you are pure beside me as a sleeping amber.

 

No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,

we will go together, over the waters of time.

No one else will travel through the shadows with me,

only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.

 

Your hands have already opened their delicate fists

and let their soft drifting signs drop away; your eyes closed like two gray

wings, and I move

 

after, following the folding water you carry, that carries

me away. The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.

Without you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all. 

 

Pablo Neruda 

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I Can

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Thanks Jenny for this

I CAN LIVE, I CAN LOVE,  I CAN REACH the heavens above, I CAN RIGHT what is wrong, I CAN SING just any song.  I CAN DANCE,  I CAN FLY, and touch the rainbow in the sky…I can be your good friend…. I CAN LOVE YOU UNTIL THE END

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Dinner at the Kneedler House, Baguio

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It was nice to be in Baguio after Christmas!  And it’s always nice to be invited by Tito Stephen and Tita Reggie who also love being in Baguio any chance they can get

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Love the many small cute things of Tita Reggie which she puts around her home 

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and her collections!! My favorite of course are the hearts 🙂 

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And love also the sayings all over the house 

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And of course we look forward to Tita Reggie’s cooking 

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Kids always like to have marshmallows and hotdogs in the fireplaces in Baguio 🙂 

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How You Can Be A Blessing Magnet

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Happy Thanksgiving from Heart2Heart!  Sharing with you a quote and another newsletter from Bo Sanchez

 a good life is when you assume nothing, do more,need less, smile often,dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed  you are for what you have.

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