The Sprinkles: Sharing is Caring

It’s Sunday and it feels great to be sitting writing this piece. After a week of a date with the desktop computer (read: staring contest) in the office designing the official calendar of the City Government for year 2013, I am taking respite. Lay-outing the calendar usually takes months to prepare; two days of actual designing and selecting photographs that make it and the rest would be dedicated to revising the whole thing to fit the taste of the big bosses. This is actually my second opportunity to layout Tagum City’s Calendar, the first one was during last year for the 2012 Calendar.

Designing the city government’s calendar is actually great. The long hours of making the design would be worth it when you see your product hanging in every home across Tagum, in schools, in business establishment, in offices and the like. The city government will be printing 50,000 pieces for this particular calendar, some of which will be sent abroad.

What actually makes it more exciting this time is that our office is tasked to produce not just one but two designs for the official 2013 calendar of the city. I am not in authority to divulge the details of the concepts yet, but once it’s out in the public to see, I will be giving an update through this blog. Since we are producing not just one but two designs this time, expect that I’ll be seeing the world in the next few weeks through bulging eye bags.

But all is not dedicated for work this month. By the end of September, I’ll try for the very first time solo backpacking all the way to Carles town in the picturesque province of Iloilo. Carles is home to the mystical Islas de Gigantes—a group of islands located in the northern part of the Panay Island. I found this spell-binding place weeks ago and its turquoise-blue seawaters and the seafoods (yes, seafoods!) make me excited to the bones.

Last Friday, officemate and fellow blogger Leo Timogan of tagumexposure.blogspot.com did what we want best: sharing our little knowledge in AVP production and Photography, respectively. Videographer Kelvin Palermo also tagged along, helping us deliver the basics to our participants. It was actually great to share with interested teenagers our humble know-how of these two subjects. Passing on some knowledge to them and pushing them to tell stories through photographs and audio visual presentations is humbling and inspiring. We would like to extend our thanks to Ate Shiela Onlos for inviting us.

This week taught me this thing: Sharing is Caring. As long as opportunity will knock on my door to share your God-given talent, I would be very glad to take part in it. Making yourself available for the development of other person’s talent and potential is a sort of giving back, or for being thankful for what talent you’ve got.

So whether it’s about giving your best in an assignment, say designing some awesome things, or by sharing your knowledge to those who need it, it’s actually bringing back the glory to God who gave you all these things.

When you’ve got a job to do, an assignment to accomplish, give all your very best. When someone needs help, be humble enough to share.

Remember, sharing is caring. Happy Sunday!

Louie.