Several weeks ago, I got a call from two of my for­mer stu­dents who were sib­lings. Their dad died sud­denly. They flew in from Cebu early morn­ing. I met them at the hos­pi­tal. We went to the morgue.

Jake Shimabukuro is a last name you will have a hard time pro­nounc­ing (it’s she-ma-BOO-koo-row). And his instru­ment is a ukulele (oo-koo-LAY-lay). But he plays it with so much pas­sion, inten­sity and hon­esty that you don’t really need to pro­nounce his name to appre­ci­ate it. You don’t even have to say anything.

You just listen.

This was a song I became quite enam­ored with sev­eral years ago. I’ve always loved Kitchie’s songs. It helped that when I lived in Makati, Kitchie lived in the same build­ing. But besides that, I love her songs because of the beauty of its lyrics.

This one is from the 43 Fold­ers web­site and is about mak­ing To Do Lists.

I’m sure many of us make To Do Lists in one form or another. And we prob­a­bly don’t think too much about it. But there is a really cool tech­nique of mak­ing to do lists and mak­ing sure that you get results because of it. These are some of main points of that arti­cle…

The first time I read this book by Parker Palmer, it was just before I went on the retreat that changed my life.
Voca­tion does not come from will­full­ness. It comes from listening.Life is dif­fer­ent now. I am no longer as con­fused as I was before. I went through a dif­fi­cult rela­tion­ship the past years and I have just recently moved on from it. I have a good career. I’m think­ing about study­ing again. And I plan to teach some­time in the future.
Life is good. The uni­verse is …