This is an antidote against all evils that destroy human happiness.
The Way to Happiness Keep your heart free from hate, Your mind from worry. Live simply; expect little, give much; fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self. Think of others, and do as you would be done by. Try it for a week—you’ll be surprised. —H.C. Mattern By Mama—that my children may know Her retirement home in Lower Brookside, Baguio City, was chock-full of framed quotations that she hand-stitched and embroidered herself (“You are as welcome as the flowers of May” is now in the Maui, Hawaii, abode of second grandchild Luz Romero Ramil). And the vases always had fresh flowers from her garden. Even before her house was ready for occupancy in the early ’60s, Lola came to be associated with all the good things Baguio stood for. Rosemarie Romero, the eldest of the grandkids who now lives in Ontario, Canada, recalls, “ Lola Purang contacted the Boy Scouts of the Philippines [BSP] to allow us to stay at the Baden Powell Inn on Gov. Pack Road. Our Lolo was an active officer of BSP in Manila, so Lola pulled strings. We stayed there for a whole month.” It was quite an operation to bring her grandchildren to Baguio in the days when there were no air-conditioned buses. Rose says, “My brothers, sisters and cousins spent summer with her. We took the train at the Tutuban station on Azcarraga [now C.M. Recto Avenue], then got off in La Union for the bus going up to Baguio. She always kept a watchful eye on us during the trip.
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