On a Sunday morning in April, Mario Taguiwalo, former Health undersecretary and political activist and thinker, passed away quietly at home, and was immediately cremated. He had neither wake nor obituary—just as he had specified in the months before what he knew was an imminent death.
Contemporary Philippine history records August as the month of deaths of individuals highly admired like Cory Aquino (Aug. 1), Cory Aquino’s Interior Secretary Jaime Ferrer (Aug. 2), Ninoy Aquino (Aug. 21), and the most recent, P-Noy’s Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo (Aug. 18). These dates should give greater relevance and meaning to the annual holiday at the end of the month, National Heroes Day.
As tradition has dictated for the past 29 years, National Children’s Book Day is celebrated on the third Tuesday in July.
EVEN ACTIVIST nun Sr. Mary John Mananzan, OSB, like all the rest of us Scholastican jubilarians, loved the homecoming theme for 2012 that the silver jubilarians, led by woman pilot Brooke Castillo, adopted: Walang Kupas! A logical running theme in the light of numerous recent natural disasters was the love and care for the environment.
The book “Ang Dyip ni Mang Tomas” (Mang Tomas and His Jeep), written in Tagalog by Genaro R. Gojo Cruz, with English translation by Heidi Emily E. Abad and paintings by Anthony E. Palomo (Canvas and the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2009) is not a new release. But it is worth revisiting since at the Ayala Town Center, 10 huge billboards feature the text and the lovely illustrations of the book.
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