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Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

Some more thoughts on common human needs, friendships and fundamental human relationships, my darlingest dear:

But if we seek to recognize our common human needs and respond to provide for them, as a duty of religion or as a secular occupation or both, with virtue and creativity, then we stand to gain profit, material and above all spiritual, from our own true belongings with one another in Country and not because we have become less and less of ourselves in exile time but because we have become more and more that original, timeless, ageless image within each of us in God.
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If we learn to recognize and respond to our common human needs and to respond to these needs as human beings one with another, then the fundamental relationship that does exists between each and every one of us is built up into friendships because that way we are looking after the good of one and the other and the one and the other looking after our own good.

And as we build up these friendships together, we build up our unknown earth into the inhabited earth of the generations of life.

Not all relationships are equal but all fundamental human relationships equally exist in order that we may build them up into genuine friendships and to the extent that we build them up into friendships, these fundamental human relationships exist to purposefully gather us together in exile time, in and as our own nations, by the prevailing and eternal weight of what is common between all human beings. And nations not as strangers to each other but as a one family of the nations of Mankind.

Each and every truly human relationship is meant to be built up in exile time to approach the sweetness and abundance of those friendships that are those friendships meant to last forever which have their fruition in eternity.

Because of this, all human relationships and the perfection of their reality have their hope set not in this world but in the world to come after this one.

For it is indeed true that the law of this world is separation but communion is the law of heaven.

And in heaven we shall all be friends, and "friend" let us understand is quite a weak word with which to represent the substance of a timeless, ageless relationship in God and with one another in God that has no equal nor precedent in all of human experience and therefore, does not have any real representation in all the vocabulary of our nations.

Our Lord Christ have approximated it to be "as the angels" and indeed they shall be as such and for those who know the unsurpassed generosity of God - even more.
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My loveliest love, we are expecting what is being reported by our weather bureau as a "super" typhoon. Even now, there is much rainfall and the skies are constantly dark and overcast. There is a feeling of something looming ahead but at least, its not steamy and hot.

Our constant typhoons bring out the best and the worst in Filipinos. Sure, these unwanted visitors inflict so much unneeded damages in terms of life and property to our nation but these evil things, too have their purpose and a purpose that is always, always founded on the good that remain and not on the evil that has passed. For evil has no purpose, neither does evil have any relationship whatsoever with the good and so therefore, only good things have a purpose that is meaningful to the souls of Mankind. Divine Providence always intends to draw a greater good from an evil that is likewise permitted by our LORD to afflict the good of all creation.

OK, my love, having said that - let us look at the worst that these evil things, particularly at the aftermath of a particularly destructive typhoon, bring out in my people - well, none really that is inspired directly by malice but much by fault of ignorance: hoarding, price gauging, looting - all these driven by survival instincts, I would think, and not really by a will to inflict more damage on an already terrible occasion.

The quality of my people, our people, my darlingest dear - you and I together, is made manifest in the most desperate of situations where amidst the evil of the times, the good is quite easy to miss - even by the good and the good-intentioned. But isn't it such, my loveliest love, with all of our shared humanity? Only when the darkness is at its peak does the little light in ourselves be clearly seen by our naked reason without the aid of the grace of our LORD.

But what then when times are fair, my darlingest dear? And they shall be for everything must lead to that where our hope is concerned. It is then that we must as nations resort to our own particular and sacred remembrances together that our hopes may be sanctified into those things that are founded upon the bedrock reality that our nations are meant for better, brighter, nobler and kinder things than all of this darkness, division and despair. Because to forget the terrible costs of noble virtue and authentic human freedom is to forget our way ahead and so a nation without vision is but a shipwreck waiting to happen - to the eternal regret of all.

Complacency when times are fair where nations are concerned is the unraveling of the present but our seasonal typhoons, my love, terrible as they may seem are a constant reminder to my people to rise and to be gathered together above the evil of our days.

And so what good does these storms bring out in my people - our people, my loveliest Miyang, plenty, my love, plenty - and they should always be recognized and reinforced in ourselves so that we may no longer remain ignorant as to what we can accomplish as a nation together in God and Country.

I look at Japan and her steadfast identity that amidst the calamities she endures is like steel being forged by fire - Korea, too, with her strong sense of self shall, I believe, one day overcome her division - there's China, quietly and discreetly searching for herself, our own Southeast Asian nation-states who are all reaching out to the strength of our regional belongings to each other as ASEAN - that make us complete as a civilization, across Asia and the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and Oceania (including NZ and PNG) - our own humanity is calling out to ourselves, my loveliest love, that we may no longer be strangers to each other both as individual human beings and as individual human nations together.
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On a more local note, my darlingest dear, the flooding that usually results even when there is a local depression in our area give relief to the problem of understanding those wholes lesser than the national whole - the provincial, municipal and local (barangay) level - for verily some of our cities are very old and have very specific things that pertain and belong to each of those cities only - as themselves - and not in comparison to any other city, whether in-Country or outside of our sphere of responsibility.

An adequate sewerage system has never been a feature of the cities of our archipelagic nation-state - or at least to my knowledge. Something that I believe is such an oversight given the proximity and availability of the oceans from any given point in the geography of our nation.

There are no straight lines in the natural topography of the earth. And there are also no completely flat 0 degree incline that is not man-made. Upon much of these is the natural drainage of a particular area established and a sewer system pretty much follows that natural system of drainage.

I envision our "New Cordova" to possess such a sewerage system and other things that pertain and belong only to her as a city (of whose name I am not yet sure but - Miyangersjia - comes to mind) - including her own defense which shall be in-built into the structural code of our buildings to interface with our law-enforcement and Guard units and our tactics seamlessly.

In that city, all are human beings, human beings with a calling to belong to each other in a labor of hope and of life. If a person can not discern the reality of another person's own true being - whether that person is a Muslim, Christian, Jew or of another faith and/or nationality - believing more in the descendant gravity of division (for we know where that gravity shall lead) than the ascendant unity of our wholes - then unless that person realize otherwise, then that person has no business whatsoever with us.
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I love you, my loveliest love.

Always to always,

Pusing