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Memories to Keep
One blistering afternoon in California, I asked my classmate from Chicago, who was visiting why she was so generous in attention and time with her grandchildren who came with us, adventurous grandmothers. I will never forget her answer: "I don't have material wealth...
How loyal are we to truth?
Some journalists, sad to say, equate objectivity with neutrality. They let both sides of the warring fence say their version of the ‘truth,’ no matter how misleading, and let the people decide. For the years I have spent as editor of different publications, I have...
How Loyal Are We to Truth?
Some journalists, sad to say, equate objectivity with neutrality. They let both sides of the warring fence say their version of the "truth," no matter how misleading, and let the people decide. For the years I have spent as editor of different publications, I have...
Part II: Philippine Chamber Singers-LA’ s Heart-Cramping Original Pilipino Music overflows with love for country, family, friends and musical heritage
Part II of II Series It is only with the heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Filipino kundiman [part of OPM] is the voice of yearning love in song, plaintive in its lyrical heartbeat and yet...
Fate’s Remarkable Coincidence
I prayed for a handsome frenchman. I found his ancestor, a painter, Eugene Delacroix, and went home with Enrique de la Cruz born on Bastille Day.
Philippine Chamber Singers-LA’ s Heart-Cramping Original Pilipino Music Overflows with love for country, family, friends and musical heritage
(Part I of II series) Cover Photo : The Philippine Chamber Singers-LA (PCS-LA) will perform at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday, August 17. Members include sopranos: Marivic Francisco, Charmaine Normandia, Kit Buhion, Annie Jeanette Dwight and Ana Hurn; altos:...
Anthony Bourdain’s Heartfelt Tribute to Filipino Care and Compassion
“This episode is an attempt to address the question of why so many Filipinos are so damn caring. Why they care so much — for each other — for strangers. Because my experience is far from unusual,” he wrote. “Hundreds of thousands — maybe millions — of children have...
Gratuitous Cruelty To Children From The 45th US President’s Zero Tolerance Policy Met With National Resistance And Humanitarian Initiatives
“Love is who you are. When you don’t live according to love, you are outside of being. You’re not being real. When you love, you are acting according to your deepest being, your deepest truth. You are operating according to your dignity.”- Richard Rohr, founder of the...
Gratuitous cruelty to children from the 45th US President’s zero tolerance policy met with national resistance and humanitarian initiatives
Love is who you are. When you don’t live according to love, you are outside of being. You’re not being real. When you love, you are acting according to your deepest being, your deepest truth. You are operating according to your dignity. Richard Rohr, founder of the...