Off to Cagayan de Oro City - for a weekend breather - to rejuvenate . . .

Elderly and senior citizens must never miss an opportunity to spend a weekend breather to rejuvenate and renew "one's cells." One measuring stick I use to check whether my "secret strategy" works is when people become utterly surprised I am 62 years old.

Aside from the fact that I am a Girl Scout, Vice-President of the Scouting Movement, Bukidnon Council,

I make sure I have organized a cadet troop in our university. When you deal with young people all your life you are sure to remain young if not in your aura, in your perspective. My grown children are equally responsible why I feel fine in life. they are doing well in their states of life and they make me go on living. Everything they do tell me that the struggles we went through only made us tighter as a family. They lost their father when the 3 boys were in high school and the eldest, a young lady was still a college freshman. Through it all, they were just the best children any mother - the sole breadwinner - could have at a time when financial difficulties were too much to bear. Today, when I think of what we went through and what the kids have become, instantly my tears come as already my tears are falling while I am writing this piece.

Now that the kids are their own persons, I visit Cagayan de Oro City, Northern Mindanao Philippines,the nearest city from my province, Bukidnon. I use the short time to relax and allow my "juices" to flow and rejuvenate. I look up to God and say Thank you Father God for everything!