Peggy's Tintinnabulations

Way back in November 2006, I posted a blog entitled "Victory at Last",  rejoicing because the Anti-Billboard Bill had just been passed by the Senate voting 13-0.  Sigh.  It is now 2010 and the billboards have proliferated. This is what I posted then: Billboard felled by typhoon "The damage wrought by falling giant billboards after that big typhoon Milenyo hit Manila finally awakened people on the mushrooming of billboards in the highways and bridges of Manila. And then there was a lot of noise from columnists, senators, other public figures --- some clamoring for the ban on billboards, others cautioning against it claiming (a) infringement into the right of freedom of speech and (2) the economic displacement and jobs lost from outdoor advertising industry.   Two of the more interesting reads are: Ceres Doyo: "Billboards from Hell"   http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=24848 Neal Cruz: Ban the big bad Billboards! ...

My second post is a pictorial blog -- I've collected pictures of bell-shaped flowers (thanks to the anonymous photographers)... something about me and bells. I hope you hear the tintinnabulation.      

This is my third attempt at blogging.  Years back when Yahoo still had 360, I enthusiastically started a blog -- and thought about it enough to post several blogs, got reactions and was generally  satisfied with it. Then the Yahoo service was terminated.  I moved to Multiply and moved all my entries -- blogs as well as picture albums.  But I couldn't get myself to work it.  And now I've stumbled into Blogspot  --- well, I thought, why not? It asked for a name -- and I decided to use a favorite word: "tintinnabulation" -- which I learned many years ago and liked the sound of the word as well as the sounds it evoked in my thoughts... "the jingling and tinkling of bells."  I used to wear bracelets and necklaces with little bells -- and when I walked around, people would know I was coming when they heard me tintinnabulating. But Dictionary.com defines it as merely "the sound of bells" -- so they don't have to be little bells - the word would ap...