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: 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: 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: Rebecca

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

INQUIRER.net

Original post on January 28, 2008

Sa aking pagtulog na labis ang himbing

Ang bantay ko'y tala

Ang tanod ko'y bituin

Sa piling ni Nanay

Langit ang buhay

Puso kong may dusa

Sabik sa ugoy ng duyan mo Inay

Sana narito ka Inay

“Sa Ugoy ng Duyan” - Lyrics by Levi Celerio, Music by Lucio San Pedro,

When I was just a little girl

I asked my mother,

What would I be?

“Que Sera, Sera”- Lyrics by Jay Livingston, Music by Ray Evans

Once upon a time a little girl was born with a birth defect so severe, no less than four major operations were necessary for her to have a chance to grow normally. After those four operations, she was to undergo another three, after four years. The birth defect is known as VACTERL association, which is a group of birth defects that appear together in children of diabetic mothers or children born with chromosomal defects. She had the latter.

Trixie Cruz: New Uncertainties

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

INQUIRER.net

First Posted January 03, 2008

“Mr. E: There are very few stable futures, boy. The way my father told it to me, the future is a series of infinitely branching possibilities. When we walk it, we walk down the most probable paths, those with the greatest likelihood of occurring. But nothing in the future is definite. Some are periods of great flux — the next hundred years or so are a wash of conflicting events. Others are relatively stable — so that almost any path you walk takes you to the same universe.”

- The Books of Magic By Neil Gaiman

Each New Year, by tradition, is filled with hope. By the grace of God and through the solar calendar, we are given the opportunity to begin anew every twelve months. In the same way that the earth goes through its life cycles of birth, flowering, fertility and death, we are taken along for the ride and are given this small gift of renewal.

True we are not phoenixes. We don’t actually die. But as we are told in Catholic doctrine, we can be born again in spirit. Interestingly, in Babylon, the New Year was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox , To this day we celebrate it in Christendom as Easter, Pasko ng Bagong Buhay in Filipino, when we celebrate Christ’s conquest of death, and when we ourselves are renewed in spirit.