Legaspi Family Milestones

John F. Kennedy speaks for the first time as President of the United States in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 1961, during the inaugural ceremonies. (AP Photo)

A thoroughly documented criminal indictment establishing beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of George HW Bush as a supervisor in the conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. The evidence relies primarily on governement documents and public records. The center piece of the evidence is a memo entitled “Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”, signed by J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, 5 days after the assassination, which names Bush as a supervisor of CIA-trained assassins. Another FBI memo establishes Bush’s presence in the Dallas area at the time of the assassination.

Singer Bobby Darin stands beside a hand-made automobile called the "Bobby Darin Dream Car," unveiled on March 31, 1961, in Hollywood, California. Owner Andrew Di Dia, who designed and built the $150,000 car, will take it on a nationwide tour. (AP Photo) #

Canon John Collins of St. Paul's Cathedral, a leading figure in the campaign for nuclear disarmament which organized the two ban-the-bomb marches over the Easter holiday, addresses a mass protest rally in London's Trafalgar Square on April 3, 1961, after the marchers had converged on central London from Aldermaston and Wethersfield. (AP Photo/Staff/PRI) #

Anti-war demonstrators gather opposite the Lincoln Memorial in Washington , D.C. In the background is the Reflecting Pool, the base of the Washington Monument, and barely visible through the haze is the Capitol Building. (AP Photo) For me, San Francisco was a magical place that I heard of only through rumor. Friends, or friends of friends, would return to our small, conservative Fort Bonifacio enclave with their stories about the happening and from my cousins, who lived in the hills of Marin County, of the Haight-Ashbury, flower children. Immigrating to San Francisco, was first in my mind and it could offer a chance for a new beginning, to be completely independent, and an opportunity to witness firsthand the peace and love movement that was sweeping America.

Kennith Gelpey wears protective clothing as he emerges from a fallout shelter in Medford, Massachusetts, on October 23, 1961, with a geiger counter in hand to "test for radiation". Gelpey and his family spent the weekend in the shelter to test their equipment. (AP Photo) #

A tightly clutched Madonna and eyes filled with tears tell the story as an African-American girl is whisked away from the University of Georgia campus in a state patrol car, on January 12, 1961. Charlayne Hunter, 18, who started classes at the school on Tuesday under federal order, was withdrawn last night for her own protection when students staged an uprising against the integration. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)

Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin (right), shakes hand with Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, after the Soviet statesman awarded Gagarin the Order of Lenin and a Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union for his achievements in becoming the first man in history to travel in space. (AFP/Getty Images)

THE TREES are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty swans.

The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.

I have looked upon these brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold,
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.

But now they drift on the still water
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake’s edge or pool
Delight men’s eyes, when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?….WB Yeats

"Good weather all the week, but come the weekend the weather stinks.
Springtime for birth, Summertime for growth; and all Seasons for dying.
Ripening grapes in the summer sun - reason enough to plod ahead.
Springtime flows in our veins.
Beauty is the Mistress, the gardener Her salve.
A soul is colored Spring green.
Complexity is closer to the truth.
When the Divine knocks, don't send a prophet to the door.
All metaphors aside - only living beings rise up in the Springtime; dead beings stay quite lie down dead.
Winter does not turn into Summer; ash does not turn into firewood - on the chopping block of time.
Fresh fruit from the tree - sweet summertime!
Gardens are demanding pets.
Shade was the first shelter.
One spring and one summer to know life's hope; one autumn and one winter to know life's fate.
Somehow, someway, everything gets eaten up, someday.
Relax and be still around the bees.
Paradise and shade are close relatives on a summer day.
Absolutes squirm beneath realities.
The spiders, grasshoppers, mantis, and moth larva are all back: the summer crowd has returned!
To garden is to open your heart to the sky.
Dirty fingernails and a calloused palm precede a Green Thumb."
- Michael P. Garofalo

"Leaves drift softly earthward toward the grass
Spring and summer blend from green to gold
And so the seasons come full turn and pass
Day follows day and each of us grows old.

Somewhere there is a bright new shining day
And as these seasons pace and turn
We will live in joy complete and never say
That for younger days our hearts still yearn."
- Corby Magnuson,

"Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells."
- John Keats

"Between the dusk of a summer night
And the dawn of a summer day,
We caught at a mood as it passed in flight,
And we bade it stoop and stay.
And what with the dawn of night began
With the dusk of day was done;
For that is the way of woman and man,
When a hazard has made them one.
Arc upon arc, from shade to shine,
The World went thundering free;
And what was his errand but hers and mine --
The lords of him, I and she?
O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
And the marvel of earth and sun
Is all for the joy of woman and man
And the longing that makes them one."..William Ernest Henley,

"The season for enjoying the fullness of life -- partaking of the harvest,
sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions
of the harvest for yet another season of growth."

The sun was about to set and the light was going to be just wonderful. but just as it lights up the sky on its way down, it also lights up the rest of the land. Hurling its final rays across the landscape, where a lone farmer is planting rice in an open field,

A Russian boy cools himself off by standing in a fountain near the Kremlin in central Moscow on June 11, 2009 as summer temperatures began to make their way past 30 degrees celcius (86 farenheit). (YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

People practice yoga on a rocky crest filled with astronomical markers at the megalithic observatory of Kokino, Macedonia, soon after sunrise, early on June 21, 2009 -- the day of the summer solstice. The ancient astronomic observatory, about 80 kms northeast of Skopje, is more than 4,000 years old. Kokino includes special stone markers used to track the movement of Sun and Moon on the eastern horizon. (ROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP/Getty Images) #

The sun sets above the teepee field as music fans start to arrive at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 24, 2009 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. The gates opened for the first of the 140,000 music fans arriving, at what has become one of Europe's largest music festivals. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) #

5 An Indian motor cyclist travels alongside a yellow taxi cab during a spell of monsoon rain in Kolkata on June 30, 2009. Heavy rains which fell in several areas of northern and eastern India brought respite to the scorching heat in previous days. (DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP/Getty Images) #

BALD heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald heads
Edit and annotate the lines
That young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love’s despair
To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.

Lightnings illuminate the night sky of Montevideo as a thunderstorm unfolds over the Uruguayan capital on July 5, 2009. (MARIANA SUAREZ/AFP/Getty Images) #

All shuffle there; all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?

7 A screen shows a presentation to an audience of hundreds sitting in the grass of Brooklyn Bridge Park across from the Manhattan skyline during the "Movies With a View" outdoor screening series July 9, 2009 in New York City. Outdoor movies are a perennial summer pastime for New Yorkers, with festivals and showings put on in various neighborhoods of the city throughout the warm months. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images) #

Youths cool off in the swimming pool near the village of Milosevo, Kosovo, Serbia, on July 25, 2009 as the temperatures reached over 40 degrees celsius. (Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images) #

A row of wicker beach chairs remain empty at the beach near the nortern German town of Kuehlungsborn as dark clouds gather in the sky on July 25, 2009. A mix of sunshine and thunder storms with heavy rain fall make up the recent weather in Germany. (OLIVER LANG/AFP/Getty Images) #

A teenager attempts to use his skateboard to keep dry during an afternoon thunderstorm on July 27, 2009 in New York, New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) #

A man walks along a street after a heavy storm in Shanghai on July 30, 2009. Torrential rain and landslides have killed at least 66 people and left another 66 missing in south and central China since the beginning of June, state media reported on July 30. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) #

A man tries to open a beach umbrella on July, 30 2009 on a deserted beach in Deauville, northern France. (MYCHELE DANIAU/AFP/Getty Images) #

Under a slate grey sky a fishing boat sits in the sand of Morcambe Bay on July 31, 2009 in Morecambe, England. Many seaside traders are seeing a slow start across Britain due to the inclement weather. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) #

People look out to see and the gathering rain clouds as they walk on the beach on August 4 2009 in Weston-Super-Mare, England. Many popular UK tourist attractions are hoping that the wet summer weather will improve to take advantage of the large number of people who have chosen to take their holidays or 'staycations' at home this year. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) #

The sun rises over the town of Vineyard Haven August 8, 2009 in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) #

A young boy climbs up from the water after trying to catch baitfish August 7, 2009 in Menemsha, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) #

A hula dancer sits on the dashboard of an automobile as crowds line up to order seafood at The Bite, a popular destination, August 7, 2009 in Menemsha, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) #

A young girls fishes as the sun sets August 7, 2009 in Menemsha, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) #

A lawn in Ludwigsburg, Germany, is littered with balls of hail shortly after a thunderstorm on Thursday, May 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle) #

A man relaxes in a hammock at the sea bridge of Kellenhusen at the Baltic Sea, northern Germany, as temperatures reach 19 degrees Celsius (66.2 Fahrenheit) on Monday, May 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper) #

Pre-monsoon clouds hover above, as girls carry water in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) #

Christian Jones of Seattle relaxes in the sun at Gas Works Park during a second day of record temperatures Thursday, June, 4, 2009 in Seattle. Jones, said he wishes every day can be like this in the city that has a reputation for rain and clouds. The official temperature in Seattle reached 89 degrees, one degree higher than the previous June 4 record set in 1989. (AP Photo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Joshua Trujillo) #

Children play football as clouds hover above them in Bhubaneswar, India, Tuesday, June 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout) #

A young man jumps into the waters of Lake Chiemsee near Chieming, southern Germany, in front of an Alps panorama during sunny weather with temperatures of 25 degrees Cesius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) on Sunday, June 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Christof Stache) #

A red sky at dawn is a signal to mariners that the weather changing for the worse, prompting lobsterman Bruce Steeves of Raymond, Maine, to get an early start as he loads traps onto his boat, Thursday, June 18, 2009, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) #

A small boat is seen amidst rain and fog as hurricane Andres arrives in the Pacific resort city of Manzanillo, Mexico on Tuesday June 23, 2009. Andres strengthened into the Pacific season's first hurricane as it flooded homes, toppled trees and killed at least one person on its way up Mexico's southwestern coast. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar) #

A large waterspout forms above the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla. on Friday afternoon, June 26, 2009. The spout dissipated as it reached the other side of the river. The Fuller Warren Bridge is seen in the foreground. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Will Dickey) #

In this picture taken Saturday, June 27, 2009, storm clouds gather and lightning strikes over the Houses of Parliament in London during a break in the hot weather. (AP PhotoPhoto/Lewis Whyld/PA) #

Jeanette Eggleston dries off seats as the start of a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and Florida Marlins is delayed due to bad weather at Land Shark Stadium in Miami Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) #

Pre-monsoon clouds hover above the city in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. The monsoons arrived in several states of northern India, providing relief from the heat wave that had swept the region, according to news reports. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) #

35 Lightning is seen over San Sebastian, Spain, Sunday, May 24, 2009 as thunderstorms hit several parts of Spain. (AP Photo/EFE, Javier Etxezarreta) #

Uzbek children lie in a puddle in the Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, as the temperature surpassed 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). In July and early August, residents of this Central Asian nation suffer through what they call "chillya," a 40-day period of heat. (AP Photos/Umida Akhmedova) #

Daranak Falls. Remembering fondly, cherishing memories of early summer vacations spent at this place. This 14-meter high falls is truly a refreshing site. A short walk over the top of Daranak are smaller, cascading streams known as Batlag Falls. It is located at Bgy. Tandang Kutyo in the town of Tanay.

Joggers run under a fountain in Lisbon, Portugal Wednesday, July 15 2009. Temperatures in Lisbon on Wednesday reached 27C, 80F. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) #

Destination San Francisco. "If you're going to San Francisco,be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...If you're going to San Francisco,Summertime will be a love-in there"

A woman plays a guitar in Mauerpark in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Hitij) #

People cool off in The Wall of Water at the State Capitol State Park in front of the Capitol building in Salem, Ore. where temperatures reached 104F (40C) Tuesday July 28, 2009. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Ross William Hamilton) #

A woman crosses a flooded street during a thunderstorm in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) #

Children play in water spraying from a fire hydrant in Philadelphia, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for much of eastern Pennsylvania today. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) #

Trekkers on Pulag's summit, bathed by the golden light of sunrise, and surrounded by the awesome brown carpet of bamboo grass that is the unmistakable signature of this mountain top.

Billions of stars surround our tiny blue planet as it spins around it's own axis every 24 hours. Yet from our humble vantage point, it's hard to believe anything is in motion... until you see a photograph just like this week's postcard.
We were camped near the summit of Mt. Pulag in Benguet. High above, I saw more stars than I've ever seen in my whole life. I set out to photograph the night sky full of stars, in a way to illustrate the motion I described earlier. The result? In today's postcard, the dark silhouette of a mountain is Mt. Pulag, the 3rd highest peak in the Philippines. The reddish glow on the horizon is light pollution from the city of Baguio about 4 hours south. And each streak of light is the path of a single star moving across the night sky... all frozen in time. Now, do you believe we are in motion?

It's pitch-black and I'm standing on the shores of Valugan in Batanes. With my trusty torch in hand... I made my way towards the distant sound of crashing waves... towards the eerie sound of boulders rubbing against each other... as wave after wave pounded the craggy shore.

The sixty sixth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.

I have looked upon these brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.

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FALL23 --Double X of fall colors... RJ Sangosti/ The Denver Post #
THE TREES are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty swans.

FALL23 --Double X of fall colors... RJ Sangosti/ The Denver Post #
But now they drift on the still water
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake’s edge or pool
Delight men’s eyes, when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?….WB Yeats

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur virum
nec parcit inbellis iuventae
poplitibus timidove tergo.

"How sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country:
Death pursues the man who flees,
spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs
Of battle-shy youths."

The world is an imperfect place, and the past year has shown us it can be a pretty scary one as well. But no matter the tribulations there is always room for hope. All twilight photographers know the darkest part of the night is shortly before the sun comes out. Such too is life. In the small mountain town of Mayoyao about 40 kms from the Banaue Rice Terraces, the sunrise that morning had ended with a whimper and a sigh. Dark storm clouds spoiled the dawn,Hope because it's not over until it's over. Such too is life.