Laong nila an taga Tago kuno para-away pero hanugay. Mamingawuni naman ganahani mandahap-dahap nan notisya. Naman ini na pabyon inhimo para kita na mga Tagon-on magkasinusihay, magka-binayluay nan mga gilaong, nan notisya, nan kaayuhan.
1974, Domingo nan hapon, sa dorm nan Purisima. Duha da kamin ako "dormmate" na taga La Paz an yabilin. An amo mga kaiban didto na yanag duwa, an iban adto yag panaw sa plaza. Kami duha didto sa refectory yag estoryahanay.
Taod taod, yakabati kamin sonata. Man dagan garo kami kay abi namo ton multo. Multo? Imposible!! Amo paga hanap an orihin nan sonata. Didto baya gikan sa taas, min lapos sa eskinado na lungag nan "dumbwaiter". Sin-o kaha an gapa tokar? Si Sister Lil? Sister Hyacinth? Sister Annie? Pero dili kon si Sister Cristina.
Cebu City, 1976, an estasion nan "casette" (classic black tape recorder with am-fm radio) na tapad segi nan unlan, DYBU FM. Hummm.. kila ko inin tokada . . . hinbati-an kona nan una....... Ahh..... hah...... an 1974 sonata sa dorm.......... Sus, narration baya nan:
DESIDERATA -- written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s --
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Ako paga hanap, hin kit-an ko sa Cornejo Bookstore in a form of a plaque. It's been a source of inspiration ever since. Pa ambit da lang kaniyo. Hope ganahan isab kamo. . . . Abb
Thank you for posting the desiderata ABB.Ka dumdum pa gayud ako nan iton , kada tungang gabii sa DYBU, bisan kapoy na gud abay basa nan medical books pero, kon hibati-an ko ya-on...CHARGED na sab.ya memorized na lamang abay pamati kada gabii.may isa pa bahin sa mga bata.Inday kon maka dumdum pa kamo. I hope the younger generation will like this thing (DESIDERATA). I hope they will make it as an inspiration...SMILE....
kampanaryo_spy wrote:sinoy iban mo abb si loween garcia? ay, ay may dumb-waiter kay agaw sa una sa dorm, amo? ag itun-ton gikan sa taas ngadto sa refectory.
yup, i like desiderata too. until now, i can recite it from memory.
pero galisud ako pag attach nan requested article mo:D
Dili kon si Lowen K-spy…. An kimud nan tres hermanas from La Paz. Kami duha yadto an “kindred spiritâ€Â.
Ay, ay an dumb-waiter na binantayan nan amo kaiban. Mag pa saduy-saduy naay siya sa kosina. Pagkatapos plastar ni Kaykay nan pag kaon sa dumb-waiter, mo panik sa siya (Kaykay) sa taas para birahon si dumb-waiter, naa iton amo kaiban abtik pa sa hamtik mo sakbit dayon nan tag pila ka hiwa na sud-an.
K-spy/Guest – DESIDERATA is latin for “Things to be Desired†diba? I feed and still am feeding from it. Had a chance to research the history. Very interesting. At the end, “BE CHEERFUL†or “BE CAREFULâ€Â. There is some dispute regarding this phrase. One of the publishers claims that Ehrmann himself changed the wording. Another story is that an errant publisher accidentally changed it from “cheerful†to “carefulâ€Â. They have chosen to use “cheerful†because it seems more in tune with the rest of the poem, and it appears in a version published by the Indiana Publishing Co. during Mr. Ehrmann’s lifetime.
sino na tres marias? garcia or ordona. naay pa si kaykay astan si jesusa tagupa (na manghud ni bador) isa da? aw lain baya agaw. di ba an bay na kaykay dapit sa ekuylahan sa 7? si jimmy dones na silingan namo batchmate mo adto kon dili? did-on sa sab yadto siya sa dorm maghuya.
DESIDERATA was left inside the church, right? or am i confusing it with another anonymous gem of a thought? whatever....the fact remains that it inspires.
"Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris." -James March-
An tres hermanas ordona (ordonia) Leonor, Lucia, Maria. Kami ni Maria an pilet kadayaw.
Si Kaykay an kosinera astan taga lock nan gate. Si Jesusa (susan) na manghud ni bador, an all around sugo-onon nan mga madre. Dili ko kon batchmate is Jimmy Dones.
Na bahin sa Desiderata.... ready nakaw....here goes...
The author is Max Ehrmann, a poet and lawyer from Terre Haute, Indiana, who lived from 1872 to 1945. It has been reported that Desiderata was inspired by an urge that Ehrmann wrote about in his diary:
"I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods."
Around 1959, the Rev. Frederick Kates, the rector of St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, used the poem in a collection of devotional materials he compiled for his congregation. (Some years earlier he had come across a copy of Desiderata.) At the top of the handout was the notation, "Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore A.C. 1692." The church was founded in 1692.
As the material was handed from one friend to another, the authorship became clouded. Copies with the "Old St. Paul's Church" notation were printed and distributed liberally in the years that followed. It is perhaps understandable that a later publisher would interpret this notation as meaning that the poem itself was found in Old St. Paul's Church, dated 1692. This notation no doubt added to the charm and historic appeal of the poem, despite the fact that the actual language in the poem suggests a more modern origin. The poem was popular prose for the "make peace, not war" movement of the 1960s.
When Adlai Stevenson died in 1965, a guest in his home found a copy of Desiderata near his bedside and discovered that Stevenson had planned to use it in his Christmas cards. The publicity that followed gave widespread fame to the poem as well as the mistaken relationship to St. Paul's Church.
As of 1977, the rector of St. Paul's Church was not amused by the confusion. Having dealt with the confusion "40 times a week for 15 years," he was sick of it.
This misinterpretation has only added to the confusion concerning whether or not the poem is in the public domain.
Max Ehrmann obtained a federal copyright for Desiderata in 1927. It was also printed in a collection of his poems published in 1948. The copyright was bequeathed to his widow, Bertha, who renewed the copyright in 1954. At her death in 1962, she bequeathed the copyright to her nephew, Richmond Wight. Wight assigned the copyright (for an undisclosed fee) to Crescendo Publishing Co. in 1971.
The poem was published in the August, 1971 issue of Success Unlimited magazine, and Robert L. Bell, the owner of Crescendo Publishing Co., filed a copyright infringement suit against the publisher, Combined Registry Co.
The defense argued that the copyright had been forfeited and abandoned. Three instances of distribution were alleged to support forfeiture:
(1) In December 1933, Ehrmann used Desiderata as part of a Christmas greeting to his friends.
(2) In 1942, Ehrmann corresponded with Merrill Moore, a U.S. Army psychiatrist serving during World War II. Moore told Ehrmann that he had distributed an estimated 1,000 copies of Desiderata over the years while he was in civilian practice in Boston . Letters attest to the fact that Ehrmann gave permission for Moore to distribute copies of the poem to soldiers as part of their treatment. As late as 1944, Moore confirmed to Ehrmann that he continued to use the poem in his work in the South Pacific.
After Ehrmann's death in 1945, reports of his correspondence with Moore appeared in several publications, each of which included the text of Desiderata without a copyright notice.
(3) As noted above, about 200 copies of Desiderata were distributed by Rev. Kates to his congregation around 1959. (The court stated that this occurred in 1957, but most other accounts report that it happened in 1959.)
The Copyright Act requires copyright notice on materials that one seeks to have protected. Forfeiture occurs when the copyright holder authorizes general publication without the correct notice.
The 1933 Christmas cards were not a "general publication" that would divest the copyright holder of his rights. Nor did the distribution by Rev. Kates or the later copies, since there was no evidence of authorization by the copyright holder.
However, the court concluded that the correspondence between Moore and Ehrmann was credible evidence of a general publication authorized by the copyright holder. "Permission to use the work was given gratuitously," and nowhere was a copyright or copyright notice mentioned. Ehrmann had therefore forfeited his right to have the copyright protected.
The federal district court found in favor of the defendants, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that decision, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case. [See citations below]
However, Mr. Bell has been successful in pursuing his copyright claim in other jurisdictions of the United States. One can argue that Mr. Ehrmann tried to protect his copyright, as evidenced by a copy of the poem published by the Indiana Publishing Co. that clearly bears the 1927 copyright notice.
It seems that the courts cannot agree on this issue. Thus, whether or not this poem is in the public domain depends upon your point of view and your place of residence.
ganahani sab bitaw ako nan yaon na poem. Grabe ka meaningful. I saw it first time sa clinic nan mama nan ako bestfriend nan elementary... I never forgot the message...
"Whoever told u you're not beautiful, are either blind or have seen me in the flesh!"
