Welcome to Lotus Rainier
Unprecedented show of support
Emerald Avenue in Pasig became a cherry-pink blossomed street with over 137,000 folks who came out to support @lenirobredo @bise_leni in her rally today. It was overflowing in hope because folks connected with each other and identified with Leni Gerona Robredo's...
Hope Actualized
The outpouring of heartfelt gestures for Leni Gerona Robredo VP Leni Robredo is unprecedented. I have witnessed how artworks and logos were made for our beloved 44th US President Barack Obama. Yet, this woman, this untiring guardian of Philippine democracy is fierce...
Power of Love
Around me is pink. Even this poem about lugaw by Marvin B. Aceron got me crying. I recalled my mom and dad's love story and how we lived in our first home, where my bedroom got flooded each time it rained. Imagine your bed rocking and floating. You then get to stand...
Momentum Speaks
March 15, 2022 A day prior to #kakampinkwednesdays 100 poems, 67 poets, Millions mobilized in a Movement There's no stopping the momentum. Not even local officials who maliciously schedule the roads and bridges' repairs to stop the folks from attending rallies. As if...
Radical Love
An early spring preview. #spring #dtla #chinatown #losangeles #la #treesofinstagram #pinktrumpettree #latimesphotos #travel Around me is pink. Even this poem about lugaw by Marvin B. Aceron got me crying. I recalled my mom...
Love for the Arts
47 years ago with only $200 in my pocket, with a California destination to be with my elder sister, Rose, I became a regulatory official for a state public health agency. I have been retired after 27 years of public service and I have been writing a column for 11...
Heaven on Earth Experience
Myheavenonearth with my family celebrating #myfirstborn's birthday, who does not want her photo on social media. Great food at #vale Thank you @coriput and her patient hubby for a paradise experience! Thank you @enriquedlz for driving us...
One Life Together
March 9, 2022 Day after International Women's Day #kakampinkwednesdays "Ang Buhay Mo, Buhay Ko: One Heart and One Soul Together" Just as the Mayor of Kyiv, Klitschko posted on Instagram that "the drama in Ukraine at this very moment [March 7, 2022] questions the very...
For Her Eternal Dignity
On the 100th birthday of Sanctus Joannes Pavlvs PP II, aka St. #John Paul II's letter #31: "In this holy place, the Church gives thanks to the Most Holy Trinity for the mystery of woman, and for every woman, for her eternal dignity and for the wonders God has worked...