What if you can go back to your past and see your­self before you made the choices that change your life? This is the premise of Richard Bach’s novel ONE. I love this part in par­tic­u­lar. Spoiler Alert: Some details will be dis­cussed, so if you want to read the novel your­self, stop here.

I have rec­om­mended around 100 web­sites, ser­vices, apps in the past months. Today will be a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. Today I will tell you the best of the best. They’re all my favorites, mind you (or I wouldn’t be rec­om­mend­ing them at all!), but if I had to choose just ten (10), I would choose these:

When I was a young boy of six or seven years old, my dad taught me how to make a kite. He first taught me how to make what looked like a cross­bow out of walis tingt­ing, cover it with glue and attach plas­tic over it. Then he taught me how to tie the ends of the walis tingt­ing with thread. He also taught me how to put plas­tic on the two ends of the kite for bal­ance. The secret was attach­ing the thread and/or nylon string: it has to be attached strongly enough to with­stand the winds but flex­i­bly enough to allow for move­ment. He then gave me a used can of Alpine evap­o­rated milk to wind the long thread.

Found this on Face­book some time ago. I don’t know them per­son­ally, although the bride is a Fil­ip­ina come­dian. I just found this video beau­ti­ful, and that’s why I’m post­ing it.

I heard this in a Side A con­cert sev­eral years ago. I know it’s not their song, but I loved their ver­sion. The other day, I was dri­ving through EDSA and heard this song again over the radio. It reminded me of a life that was more sim­ple, less complicated.