February 10, 2009
catesbool
Finding Autumn
10.02.08
Davao Eden Nature Park
A relaxing morning in Davao’s Eden Nature Park. I am already freshly showered and dressed, waiting for my roomies to finish theirs so we can go up to the resto and have breakfast. I am sitting here by the foyer, looking at glorious sunshine filtering through very tall trees. Morning music fills the air, thanks to those cicadas and I-don’t-know-what-they are called insects making their early noises. Every now and then, yellow and brown leaves slowly plummet down to the ground, soon to be nourishment for the earth. No signs of life or movement coming from the cottage ahead. You can stay here and forget the rest of the world exists after all. No telephone calls to disturb you unless it’s your cellphone ringing. How this part of the world sees the bigger world, I don’t know. It sits here just like a maiden from the olden times, waiting for a straggler to stumble by, discover its beauty and hope to God they return for her to fulfill promises made in the middle of the night. Until the mist is shattered by the sound of basketball hitting the cemented ground somewhere…
Yonder is where we’ll have part 2 of the corpcomm sessions. ‘Tis a place which reconnected me yesterday to a distant part of my memory, something I quickly forgot for some painful reason. In front of the session hall stood a playground. Several zip flights on the right. Kids scrambling around for one. My nostrils automatically sought out particular smells which should have been pervading the air by now. But my senses felt only loss. A memory of Irish, Rommel, Herni and me in Schev suddenly appears. We were taking pictures of kids in the playground of Schev. Irish held hostage one of the zip flights, easily sliding up and down with her light weight. I followed and no surprise there, I stopped in the middle of the zip and lost momentum to go up the other side because I was too heavy. Rommel was taking pictures and Herni tried to pull me up. We were happy as kids once again.
On the left stood a set of slides, swings and other structures meant to give enjoyment to kids. Unbidden, the image of a laughing Amada popped up. Polin was there, holding Angela safe. Agnes and Jason watching in amusement. It was an afternoon spent in Breda with the De Joode kids. Carefree autumn. A holiday from the pressures of life. And I wished suddenly for autumn to come back…
Don’t let anybody tell you who you are
It’s okay to let go, you’re like a shooting star
Remember all you wish for
Believe they will be true
You will never find yourself anywhere else
So find yourself in you…
- Hannah Montanna, Find Yourself in You
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1. ristje | February 11, 2009 at 8:34 pm
ate, bakit wala ako maremember na ganyang memory… at hindi ko inabot ng autumn.
2. catesbool | February 12, 2009 at 3:15 am
ah, i think hindi autumn yung memory ko. i know you rode a zip flight eh. naalala mo yung playground sa may kanto,sa tapat ng badhaus hotel? umupo ka pa dun eh. we went on bike with herni. hmmm… palagay ko spring yun… dis-oriented ang senses ko…