Blog Posts on art and literature

how to be alone by gifts in hiding on Feb 11, 2011A video by filmmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis. ~Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. But lonely is a...

rescuing art by gifts in hiding on Jan 31, 2011When World War II ended, a group of men and women began hunting for works of art inside salt mines, caves and castles. They found more than 6,500 pieces in a salt mine near Salzburg, including Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine”. In another Germ...

little light by gifts in hiding on Dec 31, 2010Whenever I start to write a poem or a story, I always need to find a song or any piece of music that matches it.  I play it again and again while writing. It’s like wine to my muse. So today, I needed to submit a writing exercise to the Inter...

christmas gifts by gifts in hiding on Dec 24, 2010There’s this great article on sltrib.com that listed their readers’ most memorable Christmas gift. Here’s my favorite: Timeless pictures A few years ago my husband took his 3rd grade school photo and my 2nd grade photo (both from 1...

in bloom by gifts in hiding on Sep 26, 2010My mom bought these flowers made of recycled materials at a bazaar. They look better than plastic flowers. I’m trying to find out who made these. My sister said they came from Baguio but she didn’t know the actual name of the shop that...

when it rains, it pours by gifts in hiding on Sep 12, 2010I’m still not over celebrating the news that I won a storywriting contest, when I received an email yesterday saying that one of my poems have been included in a collection to be launched this Saturday! Whew, that was long! . The collection...

sweet triumph by gifts in hiding on Aug 29, 2010I started telling stories when I was in Grade Six. One of my best friends and I had a “running” scary story about our batchmates. We made some of them into monsters (like an aswang), some were victims, one of them was a doctor (Dr. Chin...

hapag ng pag-asa (table of hope) by gifts in hiding on Jul 23, 2010The models were real life pinoy street children, except for one. The child at the bottom was taken after a famous photograph by Kevin Carter, but it was a vulture waiting instead of a cat. This was just one of the stories behind it. The painter, Jo...

what makes a dad by gifts in hiding on Jun 19, 2010God took the strength of a mountain, The majesty of a tree, The warmth of a summer sun, The calm of a quiet sea, The generous soul of nature, The comforting arm of night, The wisdom of the ages, The power of the eagle’s flight, The joy of a mor...

stories on canvas by gifts in hiding on Apr 25, 2010I want to share this beautiful story I found about a boy and his father’s jeepney. The illustrations are incredible. Just click on the image below to begin reading.