Breaking out from an urban rut, I went out with some friends to visit Jala-Jala, Rizal to shoot some landscapes.The place was enchanted in more ways than one. You can feel them.  Indeed, you can hear them.

At another time and place, I would have invoked the Name of our Creator and run roughshod over whom those I considered pretenders to their own little thrones. Name it and claim in for the Kingdom of God. That was another time.  Older--and wiser perhaps--I now know and look forward to the day when...
When all creatures on earth and under the earth can freely greet one another "tabi-tabi po" out of courtesy and not fear.  In the meantime, the curtain between heaven and earth has been torn.  The battle is over--"it is finished".  We can begin to reach out and touch enchantment without fear and in love.