Trixie Cruz: Death of the Dream

“You’ve got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying … in sweat.”
~Lydia Grant (Debbie Allen) in Fame

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Didn’t you ever have a dream? Didn’t you want to break the bonds of your ennui or poverty or the everyday sameness?

Even Philippine law recognizes the need for the young to be young for as long as they can. The Labor Code prevents child labor, to ensure a childhood for Filipinos for as long as possible.

Trixie Cruz: Once Again With Slits

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nne Curtis’ birthday was intended to be controversial. The tanga she wore was cut to the waist and when worn with a skirt slit on the left front, also as high as her waist, what was revealed was, well… apparently too much, considering all the hoopla that came after it.

Trixie Cruz: Apocalypse

It was a nightmare, I dreamed that I woke up to find out that I had been dreaming all along. Had I fallen out of the Matrix? No, I said to myself, this is post-EDSA2.

Trixie Cruz: Quo Vadis Philippine Mother Church?

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For those of us marginal Catholics, the resignation of a Pope, the first such incidence in 600 years is cause for pause. Benedict XVI certainly was not the most loved of pontiffs in recent history. He is certainly no leader like John Paul II and not the rock of conservatism that Paul the VI was.

Trixie Cruz: Staying out of it

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

~Napoleon Bonaparte

Trixie Cruz: In the Islands of Sulu

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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior…From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own fortune.
- Tecumseh

Trixie Cruz: A Story about Feelings, nothing more than feelings

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Javier Krahe is a Spanish satirist who made a film in 1978 called “Cooking Christ” (“Como Cocinar un Crucifijo”).

Trixie Cruz: 44 Cutesy-Stalker Proof (not guaranteed) Questions

by Rose Beatrix C. Angeles (Trixie Cruz-Angeles)

Original posted on Facebook on February 15, 2009

Answer these 44 questions by copying and pasting my question and answers into your own notes and then changing the answers.

 Note from Trixie: I know I’m doing waaaaaaaaaay too many of these things, just goes to show I'm FBing too much. But I love to read the ones that come back, so please, please write back.

1.Do you like blue cheese? -- Do birds fly? Is the Pope Catholic? Is Obama black?

2. Have you ever smoked? -- Yes. I quit.

3. Do you own a gun? -- I refuse to answer on the ground that I may incriminate myself.

Trixie Cruz: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

by Rose Beatrix C. Angeles (Trixie Cruz-Angeles)

Original post on December 01, 2008

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Am I my brother's keeper?

The other day, I walked past a man -- a boy really, sleeping in the street. He lay amid a pile of garbage exhausted from his daily race to survive.

I was busy, I had places to go. I had done it before -- walked past the least fortunate among us, trying to dismiss them from my mind. I too have my own race to run, a family to provide for, a nation to save. Things to do!

But not that day.

Trixie Cruz: God's Loan

In 1999 before I buried my daughter, another mother handed this poem to me. She too had lost a child some years before. She told me that one never truly gets over it, but the understanding of others sometimes helps.

God’s Loan

by Edgar Albert Guest

"I'll send you for a little time,

A child of mine," He said,

"For you to love the while she lives

And mourn for when she's dead.

"It may six or seven years

Or twenty-two or three,

But will you till I call her back,

Take care of her for me?

"She'll bring her charms to gladden you

And should her stay be brief,

You'll have these precious memories,

As solace for your grief.