An update, my loveliest love, that I should like to share with my one Filipino nation:
The Visayas
The main challenge here is the terrain. As with all national challenges, when we as one nation apply ourselves to these, they have the inherent capacity to become strengths.
It is not lost to me that the Visayas constitute another star upon our old Defiant and therefore, an integral part of our one Republic whole. And so I am currently undertaking a study of her history and demographics.
Just the same as in the Sarangani Bay* area in Mindanao, her SSC (Strategic Secondary Capital) with Manila, I am in favor of placing in Cariaga Bay in the Catbalogan area and with the same requirements in terms of sea level, sea access and natural defensibility.
I am also taking into consideration by this placement of our Visayan SSC, the effective allevaition of the prevailing poverty in that area, the highest in all of the Visayas.
*I was initially looking at the bays along the northern coast but the only strategically defensible bay in the whole of Mindanao is Sarangani Bay. Too, both the sea and land routes into Sargangani also pass along those areas in Mindanao that require increased traffic in terms of economic goods as well as, upon the breaking of the siege of war, tourism.
I should that we all bear in mind that these SSCs are to be built to last till the Last Day which is why defensibility (both from man-made as well as natural disasters) is also paramount in our consideration of these things. I am already about 80% complete with the basic City Charters for these SSCs.
I am of the conviction that we all need to work on these and I will present these concepts on our blog as soon as it is advisable. I would also appreciate any help that may be extended towards this end.
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The Barangay Park
At the limits of every barangay within our SSCs, we shall be mindful not to place anything that is incomprehensible to the soul of the common people.
Therefore, where two of our communities meet, there would not be a line upon the sand or an invisible limit that shall mark the demarcation but a beautiful space specifically intended for human interaction, rest and recreation.
I conceive this as a barangay park of which maintenance is also the mutual responsibility of both (or any) barangays that border these natural spaces within our city limits. The city itself shall have its own park, of course.
The barangay park, library and post office extension are all conceived as basic venues of a larger community interaction that will contribute to a greater sense of participation and therefore a sense of common citizenry within our city.
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Symptoms of Division
If we look closely, we can see the symptoms of the division of war right inside our own nation. It is these divisions, more than who we shall vote for next year that keeps me awake at night.
The alleged "oversight" that precipitated in the pulling out of former President Aquino's security cover is one of these symptoms. Whether intentional or non-intentional, the fact that it happened is in itself evidence of this.
First of all, during that time, my loveliest love, we only had three living former Presidents - FVR, Tita Cory and Erap. Its not like we had a million people to protect - only three.
If the enemies of our Republic had the foresight to exploit that immense security gap, it is not just any side within our one Republic that would suffer the impact of this, the whole nation itself will suffer the blow.
A sentry will never leave his or her post until relieved. This is standard military procedure. It is normally considered desertion of duty for a sentry to do so and desertion also usually carries the severest of penalties.
How this happened both frustrates and confuses me. It is just as well that nothing untoward happened to the person we left unprotected because if something did, our own remembrance of these things would not be what we are granted as a nation to enjoy today.
Division is darkness and it blinds us to the keeping of the common or greater good. And though all of our Philippines is mired in its gravity, with all our regions requiring adequate consideration, the epicenter of this, I feel, is in Mindanao.
If peace should be observed in Mindanao, it carries that the whole of our Republic shall also be able to do the same. And all Filipinos shall be enabled to prosper together from our honest labors.
I feel it is good that we understand these things now being thankful that worst things did not happen to haunt our nation forever.
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On to other things...
Jupiter 2009
There was another impact event in Jupiter about a month ago. 15 years after Shoemaker-Levy, the probability of this event occurring within that astronomically minute span of time would have been a meaningless statistic but for that looming sense that I feel about 2012 (which I have not posted until now and only because it has become relevant to this discourse).
But again, nothing about the future is writ in stone so regardless of these things, we must all together continue to aspire to reach for the future we intend to reach at the now of this present time being all the more inspired to build from our hopes, the beginnings of a better world into the new age before us.
If nothing at all happens in 2012, all the better for all of us of the one family of the nations of Mankind for building on the foundations of our peace now, because by then, we'll all be ahead.
In this world of ours, hurtling upon the void of exile time, those things beyond our control that don't happen are usually the best things for us to be thankful about, my loveliest love.
Unfortunately, these are also the things that we as human beings are wont to forget or dismiss as pure luck. But there is no such thing as luck, for it is not luck but remembrance that truly rules our reality.
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I love you, my loveliest love.
Always to always,
Pusing
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