Love sweet as #sugar is easy to forget; bitter love lasts long after it is gone. So too with pleasure and pain, joy and sadness, success and failure. We are by nature tragedians, and sad fates attract us more than glad. Happiness is a bore; sorrow is life’s high drama. #vss365

My Filipina friend Bernila fell in love with a puppy and adopted him. It was #gigil, she said, an irresistible urge to cuddle him. He grew into a formidable pit bull and scared people on sight. But she still saw the puppy in him and he was gentle and loving in her arms. #vss365

Though she is dead, the sun will #continue to rise; the moon shine in the night; the waves roll over the sea, the wind blow; the fish swim, the birds sing, the wolves howl; all nature will sleep and wake again. All save me: she is my world, and my world is no more. #vss365