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A fantacystic adventure with a wonderful mom

I guess it's appropriate to begin writing about this fantacystic journey (more on this later) on Mother's Day. Ever since the moment I found out that I had a large ovarian cyst, my mother has been with me for every doctor's appointment, every painful night and to answer every question her clueless daughter has. The journey is both scary and eye-opening (always have yourselves checked, girls!), but all the more bearable with her around. Well, it's eye-opening and (by Tuesday, once I have the operation) belly-opening as well. Hahaha but despite this, I remain positive because I know that with each scar I bear, whether on my body or my heart, my mom has always been there, and will always be there with me. A woman who, despite her own battle scars, has always been strong enough to take care of four crazy kids. So to the strongest, funniest, loudest and most loving person I know, I will be forever grateful and proud to call you mom. Congratulations, you are now a grandmother to a cyst baby! Haha ---- "I'm not fat pala, I'm just cystic!" Okay, cystic may or may not be a word but I've learned early on that difficult situations are better handled with humor. And this is exactly the outlook I must have now. At 15cm, I guess the cyst is pretty big. But the support I've received far outweighs the situation. So cheers to the weight I will lose once you're out, Cystina (yes, it has been named)! And cheers to my family and friends for the backup. Ready to recuperate! ;)

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I'll get it right someday.

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stop

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In fact, the opposite is the case. You can’t read a short story properly online. Every word counts. You can’t drift. You have to surrender to “a beginning, a middle and end” that takes you “across the universe and back”, as Gaiman puts it. For all his joy in the tumble of Twitter and Google, these stories also express his ability to do the obverse – to switch off and concentrate. They demand all of your attention, something that our one-click world cries out to you never to give. So, to read a short story is a countercultural act, a little rebellion. The genre is at its best when it deals with discomfort, with feelings and people you don’t want to think about: the gaze in the street that you try to avoid, the noise in the night you pretend not to hear. That’s why it’s important – more so now than ever.

Frank Cottrell Boyce on the stop-what-you’re-doing-and-read power of neil-gaiman's new collection of short stories, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances. (via newstatesman)

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grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.

nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

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From A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller

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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

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It had to happen.

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I miss this place :)

DK on a weekday 💒 #camerabag (at Dambanang Kawayan)

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"And we left not knowing that there was no going back."

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“Instead of withholding love to change somebody, I poured it on, lavishly. I hoped that love would work like a magnet, pulling people from the mire and toward healing. I knew this was the way God loved me. God had never withheld love to teach me a lesson.”

Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (via denisecua)

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“Instead of withholding love to change somebody, I poured it on, lavishly. I hoped that love would work like a magnet, pulling people from the mire and toward healing. I knew this was the way God loved me. God had never withheld love to teach me a lesson.”

Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (via denisecua)

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“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (via thedarlingchild)

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