Happy House Guests

 Happy House Guests

Living with Nature Center

San Vicente Ilocos Sur 

Dr Abe V Rotor

"The sweetest words in the English language are: 

 'Welcome. Make yourself at home.'" — Author Unknown

Tourism coordinators and team leaders pay a joyous visit to the Center.  

  Basi wine tasting session, a sip or two, 

   takes us back to the origin of this brew,

distinctly in the region of the Ilocano,

       and no other place, unless you know. - avr

At the boundary of mural art and garden

A happy company at the end of the day,

how we all wish for more time to stay.

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest." 

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Conversation with the endangered deer*

We understand your message 

as you hang lonely on the wall;

to meet your kins in the wild

and save them from the Fall.

* Visayan spotted deer and the Calamian deer in the Philippines

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 Home library and archive; basi wine cellar

Memorabilia alive, a drop of tear;

reminiscence conquers our fear. 

"Without archives, many stories would be lost, and the voices 

of the past would be silenced forever." – Sara Sheridan

 

Art gallery, Apo Resurrecion icon

Art - talent and faith,

skill and piety,

joy and reverence,

sublime humility.

Welcome to our ancestral home

Happiness is one commodity;

divide, it will multiply;

share, it grows far and wide

timeless and free. 

"To invite a person to your house is to take charge of his happiness 

as long as he be beneath your roof." — Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

 

 

Archives and exhibits

Sling shot, fishing rod, bird trap;

that was a long time ago, we say,

many habagat and amihan since;

 boyhood never dies, we pray.

 

"Archives are the records of everyday life. They are the stories of us." – Unknown

   

House guests take a break

Children and grownups wish to be 

under the breezy shade of a tree, 

paint on-the-spot nature's scenery,

in silence, peace and harmony. 

"Relax, recharge and reflect. Sometimes it’s okay to do nothing." — Unknown