BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Embassy of Philippines

DC -- Embassy of Philippines:

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1. EMBPHI_180512_01.JPG: And thus we care, And thus we live Not for the end (Since that is not unknown), It is the wait, creative Life and love in full; Unfinished, uncertain, unknown, Yet mocking the known end That comes sooner, Later, or not at all. Excerpts from "Between-Living," a poem by Edith L. Tiempo (1919-2011), National Artist for Literature
2. EMBPHI_180512_10.JPG: Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed, Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost, With gladness I give you my life, sad and repressed; And were it more brilliant, more fresh and at its best, I would still give it to you for your welfare at most. Let the moon with soft, gentle light me descry, Let the dawn send forth its fleeting, brilliant light, In murmurs grave allow the wind to sigh, And should a bird descend on my cross and alight, Let the bird intone a song of peace o'er my site. Pray thee for all the hapless who have died, For all those who unequalled torments have undergone; For our poor mothers who in bitterness have cried; For orphans, widows and captives to tortures were shied, And pray too that you may see your own redemption. My idolized Country, for whom I most gravely pine, Dear Philippines, to my last goodbye, oh, harken There I leave all: my parents, loves of mine, I'll go where there are no slaves, tyrants or hangmen Where faith does not kill and where God alone does reign. Excerpts from "Adios, Patria Adorada," the poem written on the eve of his martyrdom by Dr. Jose P. Rizal (861-1896), National Hero of the Philippines
3. EMBPHI_180512_14.JPG: Love -- he seemed to have missed it. Or was the love that others told about a mere fabrication of perfervid imagination, an exaggeration of the commonplace, a glorification of insipid monotonies such as made up his love life? Was love a combination of circumstances, or sheer native capacity of soul? In those days love was, for him, still the eternal puzzle; for love, as he knew it, was a stranger to love as he divined it might be. Excerpts from "Dead Stars," considered to be the first Philippine modern short story in English, by Paz Marquez-Benitez (1894-1983)
4. EMBPHI_180512_18.JPG: I am a Filipino. In my blood runs the immortal seed of heroes–seed that flowered down the centuries in deeds of courage and defiance. I am a Filipino, child of the marriage of the East and the West. I am of the East, an eager participant in its spirit, and in its struggles for liberation from the imperialist yoke. For I, too, am of the West, and the vigorous peoples of the West have destroyed forever the peace and quiet that once were ours. For no man and no nation is an island, but a part of the main, there is no longer any East and West–only individuals and nations making those momentous choices which are the hinges upon which history resolves. I have seen the light of justice and equality and freedom, my heart has been lifted by the vision of democracy, and I shall not rest until my land and my people shall have been blessed by these, beyond the power of any man or nation to subvert or destroy. I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance -- for myself and my children and my children's children -- - forever. Excerpts from "I Am a Filipino," by Carlos P. Romulo (1898-1985), National Artist for Literature and former Philippine ambassador to the United States
Wikipedia Description: Embassy of the Philippines, Washington, D.C.
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The Embassy of the Philippines in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United States. It is located at 1600 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. It predates the independence of the Philippines, and is the oldest Philippine legation overseas, though the distinction of the first Philippine embassy proper overseas, belongs to the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo.

The original Philippine Embassy building, a house built in 1917 for Daniel C. Stapleton on a design by local architect Clarke Waggaman, was purchased by the Office of the Resident Commissioner of the Philippines during the period of service of Joaquin Elizalde. During World War II, from May 1942 onwards, it became the headquarters of the government-in-exile of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and temporary capital of the Philippines until the Commonwealth government returned to the Philippines in October, 1944.
The former chancery located at 1617 Massachusetts Avenue

On July 4, 1946, the embassy was formally established. A residence for the Philippine Ambassador was purchased in the 1950s, the original plan of President Quezon to turn the temporary official residence of the President of the Philippines located at the Shoreham Hotel having been abandoned by President Osme�a.

In 1991, construction of a new Chancery Building began on a trapezoidal island on Massachusetts Avenue, bordered by 17th Street, N Street, Bataan street, and Massachusetts Avenue, across from the old building. Completed in 1993, the present-day building is a four-story of beaux-arts design with a smooth-finish precast, blending nicely with the traditional limestone structures of Embassy Row.

The old building, meanwhile, was converted into the embassy's Consular section in the late 2000s.
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2018 photos: Overnight trips this year: (February) Greenville, NC for a Civil War Trust conference,, (May/June) Newport News, VA for another CWT conference, (July) my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles), (August twice, October) three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and (September) Chicago, IL for my CWT swansong event. Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000. Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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