As I sit at my desk in my office listening to my students’ voices animatedly and laughingly seeping through the windows I feel my heart ache. Having known many of them through conversations spent in the classroom and, oftener, on the corridors, in the canteen, on a field trip or even by text and email, [...]
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The Ways of This Earth
Posted in angel conversations, tagged angel, Being, home, Nonoy Ozaeta, passions on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Trusting In the Perfect
Posted in angel, angel conversations, tagged angels, Nonoy Ozaeta, source, trust on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was turning six years old when my mother died. I remember her vaguely now, only snatches of memories. She had brown, curly hair and an infectious laugh.
My earliest memory of her was her laughter, light and like the pealing of tiny bells. I was too young then to understand why she stopped laughing and [...]
Letting Go
Posted in angel, angel conversations, angel lessons, tagged angels, letting go, Nonoy Ozaeta, suffering on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has been said that the cause of all suffering in this world is desire. When you desire something or someone and cannot have it or him, then you suffer emotionally. When you hold on to a dream for yourself and it does not come to pass in the time you expect, you suffer. When [...]
Coming Home
Posted in angel, angel conversations, tagged Angel of Death, Angel of Homecoming, death, Nonoy Ozaeta on November 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I stood there looking down on my father’s grave. Every year, usually on the day before November 1, the clan gathers at the family mausoleum with a priest to celebrate a Mass and bless the graves of departed relatives including my parents’. After all the good-byes I was among the last to leave. I turned [...]
