letters from Van

Sharing two e-mails....

Thank you, Van!

Mabait,Thank you!.Picnic by the creek beside the cute hut and the food set up on an old bamboo bed, the trees and the dogs roaming around in the backyard, the animated chats with relatives most likely reminscing old time memories.

In this picnic it is purely Filipino rural ambience--i can relate very well to this picnic scene.I love it! The nipa hut .--the background music.you can't beat that.

This is a real broadway show in a natural setting with no directors nor actors or actresses. Very nice video!

van

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Thank you again, mabait, for sharing memories.Our roots have some kind of magnet in it.It pulls us gently to it.It is , indeed, a joy of ambivalence when we see our roots--relatives, friends, neighbors, fellow co-workers and yes even the the trees , weeds, the dusts, the rocks,the old utensils, the broken pavement of many years ago now covered with grasses,the olds post of that long gone ancestral house.

Darn even the air.This thing called roots is so powerful.honestly at the moment I long for my roots with sadness and joy mixed with a very exhilirating delight.

Thank you mabait for the this fleeting PEACE you sent.GOD is Peace and PEACE IS GOD..

Van