I am not sure how to get started on this act of writing memoirs for I was never one for putting words on paper. It eludes my mind and defied my scarce and nifty imagination how those writers did with finesse in weaving and knitting words with ease and came out with blockbusters. With all these in my mind, I am also a striving Poet and writing poetries in my spare time...and Pottery.
I was born in the silent night of December 3, 1951.
My father was a small town cop and mother (both deceased) a seamstress. Our big family was cloistered in our small house... it looked like a motley crew of elves and imps (we were 11) speaking a common language of poverty. With a meager salary of a small town cop, our existence was a paradigm of hand-to-mouth ritual. It was real hard for my parents to make both ends meet... and hunger, the paramour of poverty, always found a way to sneak into our house. Food was scarce and hardly was there any meat on the table.
The house undertook a spirited daily effort to fortify our financial inadequacy but in spite of our pooled resources the coffer was always empty.
I started at a young age to pound the hammer on my dream and sparks flew in every direction as I hit the head of a stubborn ambition. It was a man's world I entered too soon when I worked in construction sites as a peon. It was a low paying job but I prided myself in it and placed so much value in my work... a value placed on a single human life- dignity. I looked for jobs and grabbed it as it came. Life was hard for me with its ugliest demeanor and adversities.
I finished high school in 1968 and our aging father had explicitly told us that anyone of us interested to go through college was on his own.
I entered college as a working student (a school janitor) and classes for me started at 3pm to 8pm. I had a tight schedule between work and study and my time became a precious commodity I appropriated to accommodate my activities without compromising the other. A college degree was all I ever wanted then and I was bent on pursuing it at all costs.
P. S. As a working student, took me five years to finish my four-year course in Agriculture.
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Welcome to, what a poetic introduction. I'm a big fan of poetry and your words are clear to me that you are the best in this. I will learn so much to you, I'm sure with that. Yes, I'm your fan now, I love poetry but I found it hard to construct beautiful words. I just focus on writing fiction stories where I found it not very hard like poetry.
I'm getting excited by reading your introduction and I just keep on talking. I'll look forward to your next post. Hit you with follow sir para mas may malalaman ako sayo sa tula. Enjoy po.
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Welcome to Hive! I will be following you henceforth. You write very well. I enjoyed your introductory post. As a man who literally bled everyday working in ditches in the hot sun to try and make a dream come true, and whos heart has bled even further only to feel the bitter sting of failure, i wholey respect your journey and the pride in your work as you forged your way into the world.
Looking forward to further posts from you
The odds pitted against me during those times were insurmountable and in my most desperate moments I shed tears in silence and felt hopeless at my penury. The road I travelled was long and I was almost ready to give up but I treaded on...on to my objective.
Well you certainly have my respect. That's for sure. Looking forward to following your future posts.
Hello and welcome to Hive! Your beautiful words caught my attention and I can say will capture everyone's hearts in this platform. I will be looking forward to your poetry.
I understand that your first few days (or weeks) in the platform will be overwhelming and nothing short of information overload, but please feel free to ask questions. Everyone here - especially those were mesmerized by your introduction, myself included - will be very happy to help you through and through.
It's just my first post in Hive and I am already in for a lot of surprises...and everybody is helpful. My appreciation to your offer romeskie.
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Welcome to hive sir. I am looking forward on some tips you can share regarding agriculture like the organic farming,etc. I would love to read it. Godbless po.☺️
Thank you for your warm welcome.
Regarding Organic Farming, I would like to explain it to you in the most simple terms and as to the ways I do it here in my Garden.
The term Organic Farming refers to growing food and raising animals (for food) without the use of synthetic fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, additives and (growth) stimulants.
In my garden, I mix organic wastes and composts with the soils to enable the plants to grow healthy and well developed.
The benefits we get from organic farming is we can reduce global warming, less health risk from eating food that are treated with chemicals because there are no more chemical residues present in the products, less acidic soils, no harm will come to the bees and butterflies and other pollinators if we don't spray our garden or farms with pesticides, weedicides and other chemicals to get rid of pests and diseases and Weeds in our garden and farm.
Wow, thank you for sharing. Your plants look so healthy. Do you have that spray for plants to have vibrant colors or orchids to flowers?
I water my flowering plants with human urine mixed with water. Urine as an organic fertilizer have so much necessary elemeny needed by the plants.
I only use urine (mixed with water) to water the flowers and other plants in the garden.
Urine contains much essential elements needed by plants.
My sincerest appreciation for this reblog on my INTRODUCTION: AN AUTO BIOGRAPHY.
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My sincerest appreciation to you for reblogging my post INTRODUCTILN: AN AUTO BIOGRAPHY.
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