What a difficult day.
My younger brother JD left again for his cruise ship. He took a PAL flight to Vancouver and took off at 4PM. I was not able to see him off at the airport – but I managed to call his mobile while they were waiting for their boarding notice. We tried to make the conversation casual, but we both felt the heaviness. He just got engaged last week – and I could only imagine the heartache of leaving his fiancee behind. He sent me an sms and said “it was a good thing that he brought his dark shades to hide his tears…”
Thanks JD for the wonderful break you had here. It was fun having you in Bacolod to experience the retreat there with you and the other staff that came over. Thanks for coming over and the COBs with Jun as we shared our lives together and tried to sort out the entanglements of our lives. And yes, thanks for the music that you played as we jammed with worship songs. I missed how you made that guitar sing!
God bless the work of your hands and may you always experience the love of our Father surrounding you as you go from one port to the other!
And the two other people I had to mentally and emotionally say goodbye to are Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
These are two icons of my younger years. Many of the highschool and college years were accompanied by the beat znd rhythm that was superbly MJs. And everyone in highschool tried to dance like Michael did.
And I remembered how many of the girls tried to look like Farrah Fawcett or Lady Diana during highschool.
I felt as if it was an end of a generation that I knew so well.
It was an end of an era.
