1. Do practice runs. Our three-week long trip last April to the United States started with a 24-hour journey (from Manila door to New York door.) We knew that this long trip would test anyone’s patience, not only a seven-year-old’s. So before the US, we practiced with long road trips (including a 10-hour drive to […]
My biggest traveling realization
We sat on cold metal chairs, shivering as the light bravely tried to break through the clouds, the wind whipping our hair and rendering our coats and scarves completely useless. It was 6:30 a.m. and we were in line for timed passes to the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. There […]
10 things I’m loving now: March 2017
1. Fave new pen 2. My daughter is obsessed with these. Here’s my favorite. 3. So good: salted caramel ice cream from Makati Diamond Hotel 4. Most handy passport holder 5. Treehouse living—just three hours away from Manila 6. Someday 7. I love the idea of a daily dare 8. This poem 9. How to take […]
Habit #7: Fill up your well.
Usually this is the first thing we do. In fact, in the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the only one I remember is Sharpen the Saw. And that’s the one I tried for many years without realizing that it’s a combination of all these habits that make up your whole life. So filing […]
Habit #6: Live wholeheartedly.
To be divine is to be whole and to be whole is to be everything: the positive and the negative, the good and the bad, the holy man and the devil. When we take the time to discover our shadow and its gifts we will be understand what Jung meant by, “The gold is in […]
Habit #5: Think progress over perfection.
Living an emotionally well-thy life isn’t a destination. It’s not a marathon where you arrive at an end point where you can stop training, where you don’t need to run another kilometer or watch what you eat. It’s more like being committed to being healthy. You go to the gym, get on your bike, run or do yoga. […]