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Let love speak: Affirming our common humanities
If you have never gone completely insane because of love, you haven't yet reached the most intense corner of your soul. If you haven't swallowed the bitterness of loss, of loneliness, of the total annihilation of self for your beloved, you know not the true meaning of...
Seeing Selma a Third Time
The third time is a charm, as the saying goes. Indeed, seeing Selma a third time is a charm!! My daughter knows how much I love Oprah, and so do friends of mine. My daughter called to ask me what I was doing today, Saturday, 1/24/15. "To see Selma a third time," I...
Andrea Morricone’s exquisite synthesis of his classical music composition Theory
“His music is current. It contains a sense of tradition with an edge. It is not boxed in, and it has a current writing style.” —Nové Deypalan, D.M.A. Andrea Morricone's illustrating his points John Middleton Murry once said, “For a good man to realize that it is...
Andrea Morricone’s exquisite synthesis of his classical music composition theory A World-Class Composer for Vatican, Russia, Andrea Bocelli and Filipino-American Artists An Asian Journal Exclusive
“His music is current. It contains a sense of tradition with an edge. It is not boxed in, and it has a current writing style.” —Nové Deypalan, D.M.A. John Middleton Murry once said, “For a good man to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter...
Olegario Cantos, one of Loyola Law School’s 50 Inspiring Alumni-Part 1
Published by Asian Journal “[Ollie] Cantos, like the [blind] brothers [Leo, Nick, Steven Argel] had a hard time growing up. He says he didn't have any friends, and people made fun of him. He taught the brothers how to use their canes better by taking them to the...
Our Man in California’s Capitol
My recent trip to the Philippines during Holy Week was unique and special on many levels,” reports Rob Bonta, Assemblymember and the first Filipino American elected to the California Legislature. Despite nearly six months having passed since the strongest...
Musical with a Scent of History
The company of CINNAMON GIRL (Photo by Blake Boyd) Anation which does not help and does not encourage its theatre is, if not dead, dying; just as the theatre that does not feel the social pulse, the historical pulse, the drama of its people, and catch the genuine...
Good Energies and Great Memories
My house used to be a gathering place of an American family whose grandfather served to defend America during WW I. The house seems to be buzzing with good energies each time I am hosting dinner with family and friends. I call them family as in my ripe age towards the...
Spur-of-the-Moment Dance
(C)2013 {E.DLZ Phototography}, all rights reserved This two year old, Katrina Rose, taught me how to dance with the wood flappers. She said, "Dance, dance, lift leg" at the Paddle to Quinault Festival. I had the best time as it was spontaneous and she would not stop...