A Bouquet of Flowers for my Tears
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27562)
Philippines
August 22, 2021 2:55am CST
My morning chores were exhaustive. Fried bananas for breakfast and finished up the laundry I started last night. Tidied up the kitchen just in time for my daughter to prepare a proper second breakfast: toast, sunny-side up, and cheesy chicken hotdogs.
Then I tuned in for two online Masses, one in four languages and the other Taglish. Wow! The Masses are really reaching out to more people. The hymns are familiar but the lyrics are in a vernacular I yet has to learn.
Mylot notifications done, I decided to check on my diary and found my self in tears. Here's what I jotted down.
Methane gas in the atmosphere in dangerous proportion with CO2.
Ezekiel Moreno, Augustinian Recollect, Spaniard, made Philippines his home.
Severn Suzuki, a 12 year old in 1992, silenced the adults @ UN for climate change.
A young friend captured a silhouette of our Lady after the rain from an airplane.
A pilot tells the story of a flight where he carried the HR of a soldier with the grieving family on board.
A friend sent message saying the late Jesse Robredo was a former co-worker. That friend has also passed away.
By the time I finished up re-reading my notes, my eyes had began to hurt from the rough towelette I used to wipe my tears.
Ended up listening to classic Marian songs to soothe my aching heart.
I am all right now. Thus this post.
The bouquet of carnation and pomelo roses is from my daughters.
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11 responses
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
22 Aug 21
A quiet Sunday afternoon, thank you.
I think it is time for my black cherry tea.
Have a good Sunday also. Hope you are not in the path of hurricane Henri.
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@kareng (54554)
• United States
22 Aug 21
@eileenleyva We are safe from Henri. We are on the southern border.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
23 Aug 21
@kareng That's good. Keep safe just the same.
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@cahaya1983 (11121)
• Malaysia
22 Aug 21
I'm glad you're feeling better. I don't keep a diary anymore but I used to have one many years ago.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
22 Aug 21
My diaries of long ago are gone now. Sigh!
I have school notebooks from my daughters' college days 
that I use to jot down my notes. Doesn't really look like a diary but serves the purpose of remembering my concerns in the past. I also use the notebooks to jot down notes from lectures and coventions.
that I use to jot down my notes. Doesn't really look like a diary but serves the purpose of remembering my concerns in the past. I also use the notebooks to jot down notes from lectures and coventions.1 person likes this
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
27 Aug 21
@cahaya1983 That's all right. When you are ready, you can always buy a notebook and write and write and write.
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@cahaya1983 (11121)
• Malaysia
26 Aug 21
@eileenleyva Yeah I keep a notebook too for the same purpose. I did consider journaling for a bit, but then I don't think I can commit to it.
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@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
22 Aug 21
You have a sweet daughters. I hope you`re feeling better now 
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@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
22 Aug 21
@eileenleyva Glad to know that you`re feeling much better now. It is really great to receive a love and care from your daughters 
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
22 Aug 21
Thank you. Feeling much better now.
My daughters are quite thoughtful, I suppose. Perhaps it's a millennial thing, for they surely never learned it from me. Honestly, I never sent my mother flowers. She lived in far off California. She sent forex boxes every yuletide season. Could be, in receiving the wonderful gifts from my mother, my daughters believe they ought to give also, so others would feel joy. As I do now.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
22 Aug 21
@m_audrey6788 Yes, that's true. We've weathered all sorts of weather come hell or high water. There was a midnight we're stuck in a university shopping center and the typhoon lashed with flashes of lightning and heavy thunder rambling. We made it home somehow. Got all the term papers printed and bound. The following day, we're back at the university again. My girls kinda know we only have each other.
Thank you for the kind thoughts.
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
22 Aug 21
That's a lovely combination of flowers..nice colors chosen..
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
22 Aug 21
Yup. My daughters always buy the best and most expensive bouquets for me. I also love the pomelo rose very much.
@oahuwriter (26780)
• United States
23 Aug 21
Beautiful bouquet, how nice of your daughters to remember you! Life has many happy times like birthdays, get together, holidays together...but unfortunately, sad times too. Life goes on. Glad, you're feeling better. I understand, me too, have both too, in my life.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
23 Aug 21
Thank you. My daughters are actually pampering me. Told them not to buy me bouquets but they continue to do so since they became salaried professionals. Told them I could appreciate the flowers in the gardens. My daughter said she'd bring me to Singapore to see the Garden City. Sigh.
I wouldn't, of course. I am not a wanderlust. Quite contented with the surroundings I call my habitat.
Thus, the girls buy me bouquets again and again.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
24 Aug 21
@oahuwriter Feeling blessed and utterly grateful.
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@oahuwriter (26780)
• United States
24 Aug 21
@eileenleyva
They love & must appreciate you! Enjoy the love!
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@Butterfingers (66585)
• India
22 Aug 21
I think everyone in Philippines love fried banana
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
22 Aug 21
Yes. We have plenty of bananas and so easy to prepare. That is why Filipinos are strong, the bananas boost the potassium the body needs.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
23 Aug 21
@allen0187 Uh Oh! Why in the world would I be 'destroyed?'
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
23 Aug 21
Yes. Thank you. It's just that sad stories sometimes makes me an emotional wreck.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
22 Aug 21
She stood on the podium in front of the delegates from all nations and verbalized her grievances about global warming, extinction of species, trout in Vancouver with cancer, etcetera, and scolded the adults for allowing all these to happen. Criticized them for their greed,
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
22 Aug 21
From the UN Audiovisual Library: Severn Cullis-Suzuki, delivers her famous speech at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).Wat...
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@sjvg1976 (41131)
• Delhi, India
22 Aug 21
@eileenleyva yes she told the whole world that we should take care of the environment.
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@RebeccasFarm (86730)
• United States
22 Aug 21
Beautiful bouquet Eileen.
Tears are needed at times, but sorry you got so sad.
I hope everyone is doing well?
I hope everyone is doing well?1 person likes this
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
23 Aug 21
The tears were mostly about the passionate young girl in desperation to save the planet.
Also for the family of the soldier in the aircraft: father, mother, wife, and a two year old daughter. The pilot moved mountains to afford the family the highest respect by arranging an arrival befitting a fallen soldier. The passengers and crew of the plane gave the grieving family a resounding ovation.
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@RebeccasFarm (86730)
• United States
23 Aug 21
@eileenleyva A very moving story Eileen
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