From Afar

Hello, I'm Pat! I like books, movies, quiet places, and cold drinks. I like taking film pictures too. Click the images for a better view!

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God's timing is perfect in everything. While you are waiting, perhaps wondering why God doesn't seem to be acting on your behalf, remember that He's working behind the scenes to prepare His moment of intervention at just the right time. Trust Him. He knows what time it is.

Joe Stowell

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my current mood

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Things I’m learning to do

- to smile more genuinely

- to stop being in denial when things get difficult

- to do things wholeheartedly

- to be more generous with my time

- to pursue something, anything 

- to do my best 

- to stop staying up too late

- to guard my heart

- to write more

and finally

- to let go of things I can’t control. To learn to lift them up and let them go, surrendering everything to the One who knows me and cares for me the most. In You will I find true comfort, O Lord; in You will I find true happiness and peace.

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Hi, I'm Pat! A personal project and archive of sorts. I like traveling and film photography.

My official blog where I post my film pictures! Have a look :)

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I recently backpacked with my dad and older brother to four provinces for a week: Butuan, Surigao, Siargao, and Leyte. Since I was on my break I was able to tag along with them while they took care of business. I was happy to go and I had a great time--I ate a lot of seafood, finished a book, spent time with my dad and brother, and reconnected with relatives, which reminded me of how important it is to cherish and take care of family. 

But my main reason for going was because I was itching for a change of scenery. I wanted to breathe fresh air and be near the ocean, which always helps me calm down and put things in perspective. I needed that. 

Plus, travel videos are fun! I used my phone and if you notice the lens has a permanent mark, haha. Maybe the next time I travel I’ll bring a legit camera although the quality of the video is already pretty impressive for a phone :)

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How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according to which nation. French has no word for home, and we have no word for strict pleasure. A people in northern India is dying out because their ancient tongue has no words for endearment. I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can. Maybe the Etruscan texts would finally explain why the couples on their tombs are smiling. And maybe not. When the thousands of mysterious Sumerian tablets were translated, they seemed to be business records. But what if they are poems or psalms? My joy is the same as twelve Ethiopian goats standing silent in the morning light. O Lord, thou art slabs of salt and ingots of copper, as grand as ripe barley lithe under the wind's labor. Her breasts are six white oxen loaded with bolts of long-fibered Egyptian cotton. My love is a hundred pitchers of honey. Shiploads of thuya are what my body wants to say to your body. Giraffes are this desire in the dark. Perhaps the spiral Minoan script is not laguage but a map. What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.

‘The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart’, Jack Gilbert

The poem that started it all for me.

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Songs on my mind

Moments are made when you have the perfect soundtrack with you

1) All I Want - Kodaline

2) I Know Places - Lykke Li

3) Had To Hear - Real Estate

4) Hirap Bago Sarap - Japsuki

5) Chances - The Strokes

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Beach polaroids are pretty great

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5 things (#1)

tiny capsules of happiness and inspirations. I’m thinking of doing this every week or so. I figured I should write here more. Here we go!

08/25/15

1) Joni Mitchell’s album Blue. Joni Mitchell has been on repeat lately. It’s been a long time -- I forgot how much I loved her music! She still makes me sigh.

2) She’s also so lovely live.

3) These tiny balls of fur. Summer (L) is my brother’s girlfriend’s dog and Polmo (R) is ours. Both have different personalities (Summer runs all over the place, Polmo is more docile) but they are equally a d o r a b l e ! 

4) I turned 18 this month. My family treated me to dinner and my high school friends threw a surprise get-together for me. I’m incredibly blessed to have loving people in my life :) 

5) My laptop is finally fixed! The first thing I did was watch a bunch of movies I had that I missed terribly hehe. I watched Drive again and I now find it more amazing than I did before. Did I mention that it also has one of the most perfect soundtracks I’ve ever heard? (a close second to The Third Man, and that’s saying something)

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tiny slices of last year.

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Last May, my family and I went to Siargao again. Words can’t express how beautiful it is there. It’s one of my favorite places now and I hope I can go back and explore it some more.

I’m grateful to have parents who make an effort to take us to places. They’re partly responsible for my itchy feet! Someday I’ll return the favor.

Snapsights SS01, Centuria 400 (expired)

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I need You to soften my heart, To break me apart. I need You to open my eyes, To see that You're shaping my life.

All I am, I surrender.

Give me faith to trust what You say That You're good, and Your love is great. I'm broken inside, I give You my life.

I need You to soften my heart, To break me apart. I need You to pierce through the dark And cleanse every part of me.

All I am, I surrender.

Give me faith to trust what You say That You're good, and Your love is great. I'm broken inside, I give You my life.

I may be weak, but Your Spirit's strong in me. My flesh may fail, but My God You never will

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pretty mistakes

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Glimpses of summer (May 2015)