Loving Pets at Home (Article in Progress)

Loving Pets at Home

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

 

 

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Native Fruits in Season (Article in Progress)

Products of Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Author displays fruits in season 

Saba banana,  Avocado, Duhat, Sineguelas, Camachile

Avocado, Saba banana

Duhat, Camachile

 

Mango, Macopa

Guava, Karamay

Mulberry, Guyabano

Tomato, Cucumber

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House Guests (Article in Progress)

Living with Nature Center

San Vicente Ilocos Sur

 

 

 

 

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Art Evolution (Article in Progress)

Minimalist Art

                                                Dr Abe V Rotor

Minimalist art is a visual art movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s, characterized by extreme simplicity, geometric forms, and industrial materials.

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My Best Photographs Series Animals, Tame and Wild II

                                              My Best Photographs Series

Animals, Tame and Wild II

Dr Abe V Rotor

Gagambang Hari, Lagro QC

The kingdom of this spider

- a web hanging in the air,

to snare the unwary prey

- or to birds, itself the prey.

Anna wears a butterfly, Bohol 

Take the backseat jewelry, 

how costly you may be;

priceless indeed is to wear

Nature's living luxury.

  

Orangutan in a zoo, Rizal 

Friendly primate, its roots unknown,

forgotten to oblivion,

save in the wild and the zoo, 

and some undiscovered zone.

Two of a kind pets, Brisbane 

Submission to the larger

kind, a Darwinian theory,

even within the same breed,

is basic biology.

B&W ducks on parade, Living with Nature Center

Quack, quack, quack, one-two three,

keep pace with their company. 

Ducks of the same feathers

flock together, is true story.

Owl in captivity, La Union Botanical Garden

Owl - longingly sad and lo!

 Freedom is just a step or two

and be with its kind again.

Oh, what can we do, brethren!

Black cat by a waterfall mural, Living with Nature Center

Complete the scene, break the spell,

that bad luck and emptiness 

are but creation of the mind.

You're a sentinel of goodness.

The sun never sets. Life in the Golden Years

The sun never sets

Life in the Golden Years

Dr Abe V Rotor

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”- Sophia Loren

House guest Norman Perriam (right) a British married to a Filipina, 

visits the author at the Living with Nature garden in San Vicente, 

Ilocos Sur in 2026 

Two old gentlemen from opposite sides of the globe

exchange pleasantries on the golden sunset of life,

meeting at a common point, indeed the greatest gift:

wisdom to restore unity and peace in times of strife.

   

"Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!" — Ingrid Bergman

Fr. James B. Reuter, SJ, spiritual icon for two generations - like the soldier who never dies but just fades away.  And yet in his way past ninety he continued to touch people's lives through his writings, TV shows, stage plays, and countless faithful seeking for advice. Author joins well-wishers on his 94th birthday, two years before his death. 

"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness." – Harold Kushner 

Dr Juan M Flavier - man behind "Doctor to the Barrios" legacy,  

health secretary and senator. 

" Dr Flavier is one of those rare persons who is actually at home in the barrio and among the leaders of the nation. In one day he may spend the morning discussing methods of family planning with barrio women; in the afternoon, he may confer with mountaineers from Vietnam about land reform; in the evening he may be found working with the Department of Social Welfare on strategy for national development." Quoted from the back cover of his first book Doctor to the Barrios 1970, New Day Publishers

"I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it." — Frances Lear

 

  

Left, Dr. Domingo Tapiador, a retired UN expert on agriculture and fisheries, helped initiate the introduction of Spirulina in the country. Spirulina provides food, medicine, clean environment, and as a whole, a better quality of human life for the people today and the coming generations. Right, Ka Dell H Grecia, veteran journalist: columnist, Women's Journal; co-host, Ating Alamin, a popular and far reaching TV program managed and hosted by Ka Gerry Geronimo.

 

"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles!" 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

Dr Florentino H Hornedo, Filipino historian, educator, anthropologist and UNESCO Commissioner poses with students at Batanes State University.  The late Dr Hornedo is a native of Batanes.   

 "Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilization!" – Anonymous

Retired Judge Argel and Educator-Businessman Gerry Singson pose with the author before an enshrined icon of the national hero at the Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur, 2025

 Begin the begin, but end never ends,

for life has an end and resurrection,

   in legacy well earned in ones lifetime,

 begins again in the next generation.

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Candle Man.  Photo by the author, San Vicente,  Ilocos Sur

 Town Fiesta, circa 2010

He sells candles near a church on a sidewalk,

talks soft and clear, his eyes communicating;

in his sunset years, this friendly native folk

goes on with his craft that gives life a meaning.

 

Author (left) and Dr Anselmo S Cabigan, long time best of friends and co-professors, examine a flowering liana growing on windy Tagaytay ridge. Calaruega, Cavite, 2006

Angels Just Pass By 

Dr Abe V Rotor

All the years, to describe you, let me count the ways:

But first, admit your age, and heed the one who says.

Our roads crossed time and again - perhaps the eighth,

Under any umbrella, any fort of service and faith;

A tree you planted, its boughs filled with children,

In its shade, old and young call each other brethren;

A field of grass undulating in whispers and in song

Of hopes and dreams among the beloved throng;

A plow, you're the man behind a home and nation,

A computer, cyberspace its eye and its bastion.

Nata to leather, fruit to wine, microbes to food,

Work of a goodhearted genius working under the hood.

Busy feet, busy hands, bound in thought and sinew,

Work, work, work - whatever may be your view.

And play? And jokes? You've got a lot, too.

Cracking one, and I saw how a whole class blew.

Child of Nature years ago, but never getting old,

Though your hair is vanishing, laurels in its hold;

The span of time and space, you now sit on its shed,

Furrows on your forehead, your vision dims ahead.

If for any reason you keep on searching, never tiring,

It's because the stars shine far out into the morning,

And ideals and truth are not the same, are they?

There are no answers - yet you wish there may.

In a perfect place and time, here and beyond SPUQ,

Angels just pass by Sel, we can only guess they do.~

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.” - Douglas MacArthur

 

 AUTHOR'S NOTE: This article is dedicated to these highly respectable persons in their sunset years - and beyond - with their legacy alive, and handed down to the new generations. This dedication includes others who deserve the same recognition. Acknowledgement with gratitude to the sources of information, images, quotes, Wikipedia, Internet, and other references. ~