Multiplying postings

I find myself not writing enough this year. It maybe because I am still grieving over the loss of my mother, of my stepfather. More of my mother who was the pillar behind all my political involvements and my writings. She gave me support, if not money, then verbal and emotional support for all the things I had been doing in society while she was till alive, from my engagement with the women and children of Tondo, to my writing in the newspapers and magazines, up to providing for my clothes and even cosmetics at times. She was and is to me my one and only mother, literally and figuratively.



Am I the same with my children? This year, I started receiving help from my children and I hate being in the receiving end. For many, many years since their births, I was independent financially, earning from my films, my writings. But today, I have to seek help, at this time when other people of my age are already retiring from their professions.



But this is more of a challenge for me now, how to be productive and economically profitable at my age, 60. I shall not allow my health to fail, nor my mind to decrease in strength and sharpness. Funny but I am now researching on herbal plants to strengthen the mind, that render bodies more resilient to stress, and stronger to face the elements. Thank God in our midst we have the inventors who never tire of researching for them as well, and in the most scientific manner.



May God bless them all the way, and us, as well.