This month was full of fun adventures and lots of great food, but behind all that, there’s this one thing that has been constantly bothering me and has been brewing for the past few months. At dahil ilang months ko na syang dinadala, feeling ko malapit na kong sumabog ngayong August. But thanks to my family and friends and this blog for giving me space to rant. Thank you also to the most effective distraction: nature. I’m grateful for our weekly hikes, and I always come back to one of my favourite quotes about nature:

How wonderful that the universe is beautiful in so many places and in so many ways. Its intonations are our best tonics, if we would take them. For the universe is full of radiant suggestion.

— Mary Oliver

AUGUST DIGEST

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• Sinubukan kong ilabas ang aking mga saloobin in this month’s Thursday Letter—pero kung alam nyo lang, pigil na pigil pa yun 😅 Wala eh, there’s only so much negative feelings I can take, kaya kailangang i-release yung iba.
• Happy 8 years in Canada to us (did a mini Q&A session)! Despite the challenges, I’m still glad to have made this choice and we are so fortunate to be here.
• This month has been stressful to my mind and body (which I shared in my Not-So-Fun Life Updates) but as mentioned earlier, those hikes and my repeated exposure to nature helped soothe my spirit somehow.
• Ito na siguro ang pinaka-magastos naming week: What I Spend in a Week. Kahit natuwa naman ako sa mga kinain at pinaggagawa namin, we really have to reel it in next month.
• Kahit sumasakit na ang ngipin ko sa stress ngayong August, I still had to look for things that made me smile.

Thank you for reading! 🩶