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Philippine Tribals

The first day of a new moon, they worship it and ask favors of it. Some ask it to provide them with a lot of gold; others for a lot of rice; others that it give them a beautiful wife or a noble husband who is well-mannered and rich; others that it bestow on them health and long life; in short, everyone asks for what they most desire.

The Tagalogs, The Boxer Codex Manuscript 1590. English translation from The Boxer Codex: Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-east and East Asia by George Bryan Souza, University of Texas, San Antonio, and Jeffrey S. Turley, Brigham Young University

*Note: The new moon mentioned here is not the new moon we know today. When the new moon is mentioned in old texts it means the first sliver of the moon that can be seen after the dark moon, which is today referred to as the new moon.

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“The Archer”, Max Nonnenbruch,

Those who experience, not the arts, but nature, may have a similar response, and also those who experience another human being. Do we not know the feeling that overtakes us when we are in the presence of a particular person and, roughly translates as, The fact that this person exists in the world at all, this alone makes this world, and a life in it, meaningful.

Viktor Frankl

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal.