Happy Birthday Mom! After worship service this morning, I spent the day at lunch with my family at home (home in Greenhills, I mean, not my apartment in the South), plus uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, and nephews on Dad’s side of the clan.

I’ve been a bit out of touch with current events here in the Philippines lately, so I only noticed this morning: a Chinook helicopter carrying ten American soldiers crashed into the sea last Friday. The waters there are shark-infested, and it doesn’t look like any of the soldiers survived. Oh, dear.