Chicken Soup for the UNSINKABLE Soul – THE SERIES

July 26, 2019

It’s a Saturday. Nishreen can spend the day in bed. Her report card was…well, awesome! She is among the top two (2nd) in her class. Her mom…My wife and I drove to her school and signed up for her third-quarter report card.

My routine is about the same: early morning prayer, then as the light of day emerges from the dusk, facing towards the miniature forest, I set my small table in the middle of my small backyard. I love the scene, by the way…my writer’s haven.

With a cup of coffee…I watched the day come into view.

An hour later, I put down the book—it’s done. I finished “Dreams and the Unexplainable.” It’s one of the series of Chicken Soup for the Soul. I read so much about it in as many years, but the chicken soup didn’t appeal to me, so I ignored it. However, My eldest daughter talked about it as often as I did, but as I said…the title “Chicken Soup” didn’t appeal to me.

A week or two ago, I drove to BGC after work. Nishreen and a few of her classmates went there after school. She wanted me to come and pick her up but at no specific time. The driver's dad. I love it!

While she and her friends chatted and drank tea at Star Buck…I perused the books on displays. For some unexplained chance…I ended up picking up one of the books of the Chicken Soup series. The title, not The Chicken Soup, caught my attention; “Dreams and the Unexplainable,” and wow…I just finished reading the story of my life. Imagine 101 stories packed into a book and 101 stories squeezed into one – your story. I thought I would go back to Fully Booked and buy some more of the stuff, but then I remembered seeing some Chicken Soup (I hate that name, LOL) in Norayda’s room.  I can’t believe my eyes…Six (6) of them stood out on her bookshelves, and by the way, her room is empty, and I don’t mean bare because once or twice a month, her husband and son would come for a weekend from Cavite. It’s been more than a year since she left for the USA. It’s the reality of our lives that when you get old, and your children are all grownups, you are left to tend empty rooms, and as years drag on…you spend the last days in a haunted house. LOL!

Of the six books…I chose one to start with. More than 60 pages and several stories…I can’t put it down. If not for the allotted time I have set for myself…I would have finished it in one sitting. In my younger days…I read to the wee hours of the morning for a book of this kind.

If you think you are a spiritual person…I recommend that you read “Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul.”

It is the gift of technology that we no longer waste so much time writing down things. We simply snap photos of whatever catches our fancy, whether a book page, a photo of something, or the world that surrounds us.

DISCLAIMER:

…the publisher of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” is not paying me for this blog. I just need to write in prep for my next book.

nk