Monday, January 06, 2025

2025: THE PERFECT SQUARE YEAR

A rough proposal 52 pages long.

Too much even if for 5 years that it required two cuts: by the gemcutter whose first meal for 2025 was marked with the sour broth of a sinigang na ulo ng salmon that sparkled with four types of grilled meat the size of a mashed potato and the unmuffled noise of New Year's Eve with 6-packs of pilsner, lager, and stout resisting...



..and by the lapidarists who rescued abandoned spirits from New Year's Eve for a New Year's Day of reducing the roughness, planed into 22 readable pages with the brilliance of risk assessments that were polished and submitted as a safeguarding report, an invoice for December 2024, and a Box restoration.  


It was hoped that 12 round fruits will indeed reel in good fortune while 5,000 rounds of firecrackers shall ward off evil including weekly meetings that were purged and not as the new year was ushered through familiar bike trails when almost all due bills got paid to honor the ritual of a pamamanhikan for leftover tiim na pata and fresh adobo.



Being a perfect square, the year 2025 is said to "carry deep spiritual and cosmic significance" that in the past resulted in the rise of the Mongol Empire in 1225, the unification of Japan in 1600, the invention of photography in 1849, and a king's stunning abdication in the name of love in 1936; that for 2025, huge advances are predicted in the fields of medicine, space exploration, defense, and technology as well as a potential cloning catastrophe. 

2025 is the pivot year to the second half of our lives, our coming to terms with our vulenarabilities and new realities, and the year when we will bravely embark to new beginnings as the luster of ancient traditions like the 18th Lodge installation rites in Baloc fade to the contemporary experience of a grand clan reunion in Bakal 2...

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