pilgrims all

Thanksgiving at home with family and friends is a joyful occasion. 2022 was a hard year on many of us - some more than others.

Russ Berrie pilgrim trolls

All the more reason to celebrate these warm and happy moments - gathered together in comfort and celebration. 

Happy Thanksgiving to us all! 

thank you for being

Let us be of one mind that we may do this properly.

We give thanks for our Clan Ancestors.

Thanksgiving family feast, Edgewater NJ, 2021

And the Great Mystery, told us this:

I shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where

those on the earth will end their thanksgiving.

I shall always be listening carefully to what the people are saying and

shall always be watching carefully what they do.

They will begin on the earth, giving thanks for all that they see.

They will carry that gratitude upward, ending where I dwell.

Thanksgiving family feast, Negros Island PI, 2021

lots of love here

Celebrating the birthday of our beloved shooting star - Peque Gallaga. 

This photo of Peque working behind the scenes by that giant kawa could likely be the inspiration to naming Mahala Dewdrop Kawali while she was in my belly. 

production still - Oro Plata Mata

Peque meant a lot to so many of us, touching our lives in big and small ways as teacher, mentor, friend, marking personal breakthroughs and highlights and enhancing our own outlook in life. 

Happy Birthday, El Pogi!

For wonder | wander | women, we are eternally grateful and abjectly appreciative to have been accepted and adopted into the whole Peque Gallaga clan for many happy years. 

As Peque's mass comm student we parked in their home every semester - working on our various school projects while fed and cared for by his wife Madie, their whole production and household staff, and all five children. 

with our production gang -  eight months pregnant

When I was pregnant with Mahala, Peque was in Manila mostly and I spent my weekends as Madie's roomie. Two pregnant women spending her last and my first trimester together.

Holed up in bed, munching on home baked and junk food cravings as we vegged on our fave videos. Plotting our conquest of the world was a large part of the agenda too. 

Great times that continue to sustain us with lovely memories as we hold our beloved mumo eternally in our hearts. 

giving thanks

What a year it's been! Terrifying, stressful, disastrous, upsetting, tumultuous. And yet, this month especially, there is much to be grateful for...and much to hope and work towards!

rise & shine!

Happy Easter from all of us here at wonder | wander | world!

This year we are all isolating and under quarantine in different parts of the world.

We are ever grateful for these gorgeous batch of Easter eggs.

Generously brought to us from our happy brood of creative and industrious little elves back home.

Filling our Easter celebrations with their bubbly giggles and sunshine smiles.

May we all be so blessed with life, love and laughter!

postcards from the edge

wonder | wander | women are together in the US and having way too much fun.

Zipping and zagging all over the place.

We tender our abject apologies for being so delinquent on posting to our wonder | wander | world blog.

At the Roman Gallery, Met Museum

Missing last week and being late the previous weeks.

Here is Issa's birthday blog on Change Warrior for our post for this week.

Happy days ahead y'all!

big sky: Georgia O'Keeffe at the Tate Modern

Like the Joseph Cornell retrospective, this turned out to be unexpectedly personal and affecting. Like any dedicated artist, I knew a little about Georgia O'Keeffe. I knew she lived a long time, painted flowers and skulls with great beauty and skill, lived in the American Southwest, and was a feminist icon. Mostly, though, I knew her as my mother's favourite artist.

My Front Yard, Summer 1941

shamrock & saint

Saint Patrick’s Day has come to be associated with everything Irish: anything green and
gold, shamrocks and luck, frolic and drink.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

Most importantly, to those who celebrate its intended meaning, St. Patrick’s Day is a 
traditional day for spiritual renewal and offering prayers for missionaries worldwide. 

crafty crafts for the holidays

The combination of returning to our childhood hometown and being surrounded by family - especially for the holidays - sure exercises the crafts part in us.

Having many parties and lots of entertaining to do can amp this tendency up as well.

season's greetings

Greetings and blessings this holiday season...

...from us and ours at wonder | wander | women ...

...to you and yours.