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Dr. Marlene Cordero: Engaging Humanity with Her Brand of Empathy in 2018 PMSNC’s Medical Mission
“Religion begins in the sensation that your life makes sense within a larger one, that you and the animals have a bond, that the trees and rocks and rivers are to the body of the world as your bones and hair and bloodstream are to your body. You understand, at least...
The Rainbow of Talents: Navigating Challenges as Immigrants and Finding Our Creative Path
"Everyone is born with a rainbow of talents. However, as immigrants, we are often faced with challenges - the need to assimilate and the ardent desire to make it in our adoptive country, no matter the cost. Often, the need to survive mutes the colors of our rainbow of...
Rhizomes has Taken Me Around
I am grateful to Asian Journal for my column, actually it was last Nov. 2017 to mark my writing for 10 years - imagine over 600 submissions now. 600+ submissions that I had to research, read books on, travel to do one on one interviews, attend conventions, book talks,...
Apo’s Special Day: A Birthday Celebration to Cherish
She loved her lighted balloons and her abuela-sewn pajama dress. Even her Pete Souza's book for children, "Dream big dreams."
The Washington Post, Pentagon Papers and Katharine Graham
"Few individuals have plumbed the depths of their rage, hatred, terror, jealousy, and despair or the scope of their wisdom and power of their compassion, yet these currents run beneath the surface of #awareness in each of us, like great rivers on the floor of an...
The Washington Post, Pentagon Papers and Katharine Graham
Few individuals have plumbed the depths of their rage, hatred, terror, jealousy, and despair or the scope of their wisdom and power of their compassion, yet these currents run beneath the surface of #awareness in each of us, like great rivers on the floor of...
Why Our Faith is the Faith of the Unexpected, a Religion of Surprise
“But that is the way God gives. His gifts are never quite what we expect, but always something better than we hoped for. We can only dream of things too good to be true; God has a habit of giving things too true to be false. That is why our faith is a faith of the...
“Why our faith is the faith of the unexpected, a religion of surprise”
But that is the way God gives. His gifts are never quite what we expect, but always something better than we hoped for. We can only dream of things too good to be true; God has a habit of giving things too true to be false. That is why our faith is a faith of the...
Elzar Simon’s Des Rêves Album: A Cinematic Experience Through Music
Des Rêves: Cinematic motifs resonate at album's Southern California launch By Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz, J.D. “The task of [a] composer belongs to the realm of the acoustical world. We often forget that this world is composed of silence, as well as sounds, and that the...