MOVING ON

Here's one of the latest videos on this favorite Rabbi I always watch. It doesn't make sense, really, when you think you've forgiven yourself for your transgressions. It's really God's role to forgive you for your transgressions. Once he forgives you, you then move on and continue being a good person that you've always been. The fact that you're conscious about your transgressions (some call such "sins"), and you are committing to be better, and actually doing good as among God's creations, is itself a celebration. Aren't most of us have become familiar with this process?  Get over that notion already, move on already. You have been forgiven already by God and that is WAY MORE THAN ENOUGH about this process. All the best.

My long term bank's ATM machine failed to acknowledge the deposits I made yesterday in a branch that has no personnel around to assuage my concerns that resulted soon from this realization. And so I contacted the phone number on the screen of the ATM machine. Took me longer than expected to get thru, as what is commonly happening in these pandemic periods of our collective lives.   I was in near panic mode when I started talking with customer service with the claims group. I asked her if she's from the Philippines,  and she confirmed.  I cursed in the vernacular.  Who cares if she was offended or not. I can not be unreal to how exactly I felt that time. I cannot afford to be inauthentic to my own feelings of rage that time. Turned out after a personal visit to the bank earlier that she didn't really post that claim. I hope she loses her job, if that's true. I might have offended her. I remain indifferent.  Worst things could have happened.  I remain gr...

https://nyti.ms/37rKLrb Have you read the interview on Michael Strahan by New York Times? He offered, although not directly as I supposed, tips on moving on as it relates to becoming successful. Wonderful reading about it! SHAMELESS PLUGS: Thank you for checking this posting out. Being in a capitalist country, I will take this opportunity, too, to share my stakes in various business engagements I currently find my self in. You may check these stakes I have here in whatever manner available to you (given changes in procedures we have from time to time), copy and paste them on your browser (if that works for you), and be more than curious with plenty of other things out there. Thank you again. Invest in REAL ESTATE: https://fundrise.com/r/eo9x3 Get a FREE STOCK: https://join.robinhood.com/jeromeb846 Open your Fidelity broker's account, too (I got one, too!): https://fidelity.app.link/e/iy3f8YYfbCb I also have an account with Interactive Brokers, where I mostly buy shar...

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28569438/sources-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-die-helicopter-crash Shocking news on a Sunday late afternoon during winter here in NYC. I am trying to recall the many times I have watched Bryant played basketball. I just read from some sources that he spoke fluent Italian (wow, not many knew that, probably). Sad. Sad. We grieve and remember the athleticism, the form, the energy, the sport. And more.  SHAMELESS PLUGS: Thank you for checking this posting out. Being in a capitalist country, I will take this opportunity, too, to share my stakes in various business engagements I currently find my self in. You may check these stakes I have here in whatever manner available to you (given changes in procedures we have from time to time), copy and paste them on your browser (if that works for you), and be more than curious with plenty of other things out there. Thank you again. Invest in REAL ESTATE: https://fundrise.com/r/eo9x3 Get a FR...

Today, I have thought and started filling up these blogging pages again mainly to share my thoughts and those about ongoing developments in my current life. I am grateful for the opportunity to do so again, and I hope I get to rekindle and get to sustain whatever interest you may have on my writings. I continue to build, grow, expand my online businesses mainly from here in New York City. I also do my paid gigs as a self employed person who is originally from the Philippines, where I left when before I turned 40 years old.  I am turning 54 years old this year, soon. Same age as my husband who was born and raised here in Harlem, NYC. The big change has been that of my marriage, the status that gives me delight most time.  Moving on, I have been acting on so many plans so I can update here and accomplish my goals as I go about planning, doing, reviewing, accomplishing bits and pieces of  my goals each day given the failures I make and the lessons I accumulate. Moving on, be...

https://nyti.ms/2EDYkI7 Try reading the link above, which I have gathered from The New York Times. As with most events in our respective lives, we all go through moving on episodes. They can come quick, or slow, depending on the life you have. You will find the necessarily tools that can be used to help you do your own moving on act. In my case, I have been blogging on it since so many years ago. I would stop posting from time to time, and yet again, I get reminders from living my life. I keep being grateful, and learn to become better aware of these moving on moments in my life. SHAMELESS PLUGS: Thank you for checking this posting out. Being in a capitalist country, I will take this opportunity, too, to share my stakes in various business engagements I currently find my self in. You may check these stakes I have here in whatever manner available to you (given changes in procedures we have from time to time), copy and paste them on your browser (if that works for you), and be more ...

Above is a link that I originally read on Facebook, and I am sharing here (I hope this works, as I have noticed it's never easy doing these cross-postings for some reason, which is a situation that happens to me all the time, and before I know it, I spend most of my time learning about 'how-to' other than those activities I really like doing, which includes blogging in my own sites). I don't know the person on the video personally but she makes a strong point. If each one of us would like to make the effort to move on, we can try to practice what's she's preaching (she's a preacher, by the way). Lemme know how this works for you. SHAMELESS PLUGS: Thank you for checking this posting out. Being in a capitalist country, I will take this opportunity, too, to share my stakes in various business engagements I currently find my self in. You may check these stakes I have here in whatever manner available to you (given changes in procedures we have from time to ...

What gave you trouble when you moved to a new city/town/area? by Jerome Espinosa Baladad https://www.quora.com/What-gave-you-trouble-when-you-moved-to-a-new-city-town-area/answer/Jerome-Espinosa-Baladad?share=d72e0740&srid=XZZf

I'm writing this mainly to collect my thoughts on recent mini-events in my every day life. I strangely had to bring forth the memory of the father of my late father. I never met him. He was a soldier and he died during World War II in the Philippines. My late father was very proud of him, although I believe he had few chances of meeting him as he was born during the war when my paternal grandfather was sent to fight (and subsequently died) in the war. My father told me how his mother received the terrible news of her husband being killed. My father even had to carry the mark of being a child of someone who died during the war in the form of a tattoo on his chest, which, according to him, was placed on him while he was still a youngster (or probably a baby). I recall asking him about this tattoo when I was still a little boy. I was recently asked about my paternal grandfather because I had to blurt out to someone who condescendingly asked about which war was I was talking about ...

Check out the picture above and read some of the more important details. I deliberately erased certain information but you can see enough details about the commission that I have started earning from my franchise business with Market America / shop.com . The business is very real, has called for time, discipline & focus to build & expand, and I have learned so many valuable lessons in my ongoing journey to start earning my ongoing commission income from it. I am talking about earnings that will come to my account in addition to the retail profits, cash back built into the system. It's similar to creating an annuity that is being built and grown together with my teammates, leaders, partners, customers. Believe it as we're all connected 100% as we go about leveraging others' efforts. You don't get the sense of being taken advantaged by the system or by someone because of certain limitations that you encounter in life's everyday situations. For me, it's...

Today, I'm humbled to have received a gift-in-kind from one of my Amazon.com storefront customers who bought his book, which he expected was in German, from me. I failed to see that the book's description was supposed to be in German when I was listing my copy for sale. And so I sent my customer the wrong one. He messaged me to let me know about the fact. I apologized and offered to refund him his payment plus the shipment fee if he would kindly return the wrong item to me as soon as possible.  He said it's OK and that he would keep the book. I'm amazed at this development. I'm remain grateful for the experience of having met an online customer who chose not to make so much fuss about his  buying experience with me. And I'll cherish the honor of having met such a customer. Thank you, again.

On What Michelle Obama Wore When She Came Along With Barack Obama in Saudi Arabia I remarked "awesome!" With a sharing of a posting that received at least 10 likes and 2 shares from my Facebook network, I received an admonition from someone who believes otherwise that what Michelle Obama was not harmful..... Someone wrote down in my Facebook timeline "Why it would be awesome! ! Does respecting other people culture become a sin or f*ck a hit to them !! Ur not belongs to this region of the world .. as we never criticised ur damin open style you are living which against the sole of real Christinty .. don't share such stupid articles which only add hates between people . THANKS" The same person added: " By the way .. am not saudi and i dont wana be , its all about understand and respect" I replied: " U r entitled to ur own opinion, _______ --- that's essential in a real democracy --- & i respect ur right to express ur o...

More books ready for listing in my online storefronts anytime from now A photo posted by Jerome Espinosa Baladad (@dyerohmeb) on Jul 14, 2014 at 8:28am PDT Something good must have been happening because I have come to realize I've been growing several online bookstore storefronts these past 5 years or so. It mainly started from having to schlep all my books every time I move to new dwellings. The collection of books has been brought about by my main occupation as a writer, a job that so many other New York City (NYC) dwellers share with me. I have to make a living out of my writings, so I would figure out ways to make money from all these activities I do that are related to my main job as a writer.  I know that a bookstore will have better chances of growing and making money if it has items that are ready for the selection and buying of the shopper who happened to looking for particular printed materials at such unpredictable times. I don't worry much about ...

Read the article on TNYT here. Even businesses, which are owned and managed by people, have moving on experiences. Certain changes can't be helped, if you get to see how changes have continuously enveloped this 'much expensive' section of Manhattan. In this particular case, I see it's technology that has brought about the actual moving on event to unfold and take place. And so many people's lives would be affected as this moving on process continues to take place. Somewhat dreaded (it seems to me) by some, we can all learn to be prepared to face our respective moving on experiences. The process is not exclusive to human beings, as we all get to become more familiar with 'Moving On' while we go about doing and pursuing our respective lives. It's not something I invented - I just happened to experience it so strongly many years ago and have decided to face it and highlight it in my writing works. Don't take it against yourself if you're very ...

I'm still somewhat affected by what I heard from a cousin told me while we were heading back from our trip upstate NY to New Jersey. Of course, he meant well but I'm still somewhat disturbed that certain people couldn't help but be prejudiced against gay people like myself. I won't repeat anymore the details here as they're still hurting. Suffice it to say that one of my cousin's friends shared him what she's thought of me as a person because she, most probably, couldn't stand my being a gay person. Of course, she added that she has her own share of gay friends, who apparently are not like me. And, of course, she didn't tell me directly---most Filipinos won't do that. They do it through channels, which was just like what she did when she told her husband who is also a friend of my cousin, on what she thought of me. I happened to have accepted their invite for me to sleep at their place in New Jersey, and she apparently doubted if my cousin and ...

Today's my last day from this job that I was doing for over 5 years in return for board and lodging with someone in Stapleton, Staten Island, NYC. He thought of me mainly as a housekeeper. I would cook, clean, do some other odd jobs so I'd have board and lodging in his 23-room house that he proudly says he rebuilt when he bought it over 22 years or so ago. Oh, well, I'm greatly relieved and grateful that this arrangement has stopped effectively today. How it ended wasn't really that positive, and so I won't dwell with that anymore. Suffice it to say that he tended to deal with me as his employee, more than anything else, so his very capricious tastes of running his household would be followed. To do otherwise would mean that I'd feel bad over the kind of work that I do, despite the fact that he's really abusive as a human being. Also, he's made it a point to contact someone who replaced me whom he has never regarded as someone worthy of meeting his capri...

We had a roommate here in our Stapleton, Staten Island house one time and who briefly stayed with us, as in less than a week if I recall it right. He's a paramedic, of small stature, a native New Yorker, and with a bearded face (then). He's a sweet fellow and soft spoken. What surprised me a lot about him was how he almost looks like a paradoxical figure to my mind up to now and he's one of those who could change his image in a few days, perhaps like a chameleon. That's precisely why I got to chat with him as I was thinking he's a new fellow who's living or most probably visiting us. I usually remember faces even if I've not seen them in long years, but in this case, I failed to recognize that I was talking with the same guy whom I met one evening when I came home to have him introduced to me by our landlord. On that afternoon occasion while I was doing my chores around the house, my curiosity got me and I decided to ask him how's he doing. I would soo...

  I copy-pasted these 2 letters from Brain Pickings , which prompted me again to post a new blog here after many days of being absent. I am grateful for the inspiration. The letters hit me deep personally mainly because I'm a writer myself, and am working to ensure that I get paid for what I really like doing. Of course, I'm not saying that you run away from your current responsibilities (especially if you have a child or someone who depends on you to live).  What I am saying is that I've realized a long time ago after so many years of denial mainly because I had a very good paying job and an imaginary status that gives me a ranking far higher than most in the social spectrum. The most valuable lesson connected to this, to-date: that I can't possibly help others well unless I get to help myself well first. There goes the conundrum of finding, recognizing my purpose in life.  Oh, well, I've come into terms with that, gratefully. And, hence, I'm building and g...

I've faced one of those situations in life, probably common to others as well, where I was the one who hurt myself unintentionally, and with no one clearly to blame except myself, I had no option but to quickly move on. But believe me, it still hurts and I still see the wound that is still healing somewhere on my body. One example of such life events took place where I was doing laundry in the basement by myself then. The space was tiny with all the washers and dryers lined up on one side and there's just enough space for a person to walk back and forth while doing the laundry. At the other side of the rectangular space is the enclosed metallic board box where part of electrical systems can been seen inside when you open it. I think you use them mainly for switches in case power interruptions take place. It's on that part of the wall but its 4 somewhat pointed edges are exposed and could be seen right away by anyone inside that laundry space. I was just making a few steps...

I've written many times about my bad memories as well as the good ones I've collected on my late Father, who was not exactly the ideal one (at least, not even one of those types you read on stereotyped characterizations of fathers). I'm grateful he and I had managed to deliberately patch many of the issues we had on each other before he passed on in late 2006. It is an understatement to say that I've learned so much from these really bad experiences with my late Father. I'm just shaking my head over postings I've been reading from relatives and friends who have been expressing their salutations to their fathers on Father's Day . I'm really, genuinely, very happy for them. In my case, I know I won't be able to say something really similar to my late Father. I'll leave it at that, and I'm grateful that my father was very instrumental in turning me into someone I am right now. I would not take it any other way, or I'll be dishonest with my...