You know holiday shopping is offensive and wasteful. You know Christmas “wish lists” and “gift exchanges” degrade the concept of giving. You know Christmas marketing is a scam, benefiting manufacturers, stores, and huge corporations, while driving individuals into debt. You know this annual consumer frenzy wreaks havoc on the environment, filling landfills with useless packaging and discarded gifts.
Yet, every year, you cave in and go shopping.
The relentless onslaught of advertising exerts constant pressure. So do the unified bleatings of herds of shoppers, who call you “Scrooge” if you fail to enthusiastically join their ritual orgy of consumption. Friends and family needle you with gift requests, store windows beckon with shiny colorful packages, the same “classic” holiday jingles are piped constantly through every speaker in town.
We show our love for friends and family by giving our time and care, not by purchasing consumer goods. We maintain the integrity of giving by giving spontaneously and from our hearts, rather than during a specified season!
Taken from xmasresistance
Alive, alive forevermore! my old blog is now alive again…thanks to my darling Vikki!
The Samuel Bilibit blog started way back in 2005, nung panahong wala pang friendster, facebook at twitter. But while the site is maintained, its content appears on and off like Christmas lights.
The ‘Travel Light’ blog is now resurrected back to life, and I’m hoping that this new lease on blogging life brings back my old Samuel Bilibit blogging spirit, again.
Balik ‘Blog ang Mundo’!
hello blogosphere…i’m still here : D
Will try to blog again soon…very soon.
In the meantime I’m reposting here my Facebook Status Message:
I would like to greet all my brother DeMolays, on the occasion of the 91st Founding Anniversary of the International Order of DeMolay starting today till March 18, 2010, which also marks the 696th death anniversary of the namesake of the Order, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques DeMolay, who was burnt at the stake on March 18, 1314.
Brethren, as long as there is the Order of DeMolay, we are One!
Always DeMolay!
Protrait of the Most Famous and Illustrious Filipino Freemason. Just take your pick…hehehe!
(Photo taken by my darling wife Vikki during our Mother’s Day Photo Walk at Fort Santiago)
I have been an absentee blogger lately. This is because of the following reasons; First, I had found a job, so most of my time are spent working. Secondly, I had found a job, so most of my time are spent working and lastly, I had found a job, so most of my time are spent working.
I will try to catch up with my blogging soon as i get the chance. In the meantime you can catch me hanging out at Facebook. You can follow me there.
Another of Bambit’s portraiture study: moi.
One of Bambit‘s Nikon D60 study on Portraiture, with her favorite model, Ms. Himaya Amarantha K. Gaerlan.
