Beatrice's 50th: A Black & White Party for Gawad Kalinga

The Black & White Theme: Life as a Poetry in Gratitude

A 'food for the soul' party like no other!
It's about the black & the white,
the yin & yang,
the tear & laughter,
the dawn & dusk,
the hello & goodbye,
the beginning & ending...
two opposing forces of life that give it profound meaning & depth...

Friends joined us celebrate ArtsyGutsy's 50th wonderful years by
rekindling the goodness & the spirit of gratitude of the Filipino.
Proceeds of this event benefitted the Gawad Kalinga Project
(building villages for the homeless).

An elegant cocktail-reception in a very unique floral showroom setting
laced with fine music, poetry & beautiful thoughts, flowers, candles &
the love of friends,
also an event to honor ArtsyGutsy's Gawad Kalinga Heroes:

Mr. Allan Camaisa

Dr. Ben Camacho

Ms. Tess Carandang

Mr. Ross Labadlabad
Ms. Yolly Rosario

Ms. Ellen Sexsion

Mr. Chris Mallari

Ms. Tata Villegas

Saturday, 17 December 2005, 5-10pm
Botanica, 2310-B Kettner Blvd., San Diego, Ca 92101
Black & White Cocktail Attire/Business Suit

"GRATITUDE is a twofold love --
love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest"
~ Henry Van Dyke

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
~ Marcel Proust

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy".
~ Ralph Blum





"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live".
~Jackie Windspear





"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
~ Kahlil Gibran

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls”
~ Aesop

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."
~ Melodie Beattie





"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." ~ Albert Schweitzer

"If one could only learn to appreciate the little things...
A song that takes you away, for there are those who cannot hear.
The beauty of a sunset, for those who cannot see.
The warmth and safety of your home, for those who are homeless.
Time spent with good friends, for those who are lonely.
A walk along the beach, for those who cannot walk.
The little things are what life is all about.
Search your soul and learn to appreciate."
~ Shadi Souferian





"As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world". ~Adabella Radici

"Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude
is the most important and by far the most life-changing".
~ Zig Ziglar





"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that
what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for".
~ Epicurus





"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel".
~Author Unknown





"Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness.
You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project.
And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others".
~ Chogyam Trungpa





"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and GRATITUDE."
~ Denis Waitley





"We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures".
~Thornton Wilder




"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it".
~ Richard Bach





"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of GRATITUDE, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made".
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery




“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?"
~ Richard Dawkins





“Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.
To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation
devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities.
Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.”
~ Grenville Kleiser