Marinduque Sun

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A singular shutter and the setting sun is suspended upon the horizon along with this silhouette of dried tiwanak bamboo washed helplessly ashore. Its stalky stems reflect the likeness of constantly opposing ideas, twists and turns all around us, so like life on the island of Marinduque - harmonious now, discordant the next, with the neutral sun watching, merely impressing upon us the eternal truth that there’s simply no shortcut to attaining peace, freedom and happiness for our people.

Yet none could ever suppress the reality that great ideas in their various shapes and forms could also soon merge according to the laws of nature, balance and proportion where the good is raised, the wicked, so wicked ones forgiven or simply cast away far into oblivion, such that fresh, new Hope unfolds her wings that it comes naturally for us, as we do now, to wish for everyone PEACE, PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS IN THE NEW YEAR!

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