Mama, this great guy toppled a dictatorship in South Africa.” My finger pointed to a front-page portrait of Nelson Mandela in mutual-admiration gaze with Cory Aquino. My 97-year-old mother had to be guided through a maze of memory bytes.
It has been the facile conclusion that the “pacifist” Rizal became our national hero over the “war freak” Bonifacio because it thus suited the Americans’ pacifying campaign against us.
In celebration of the National Arts Month (NAM), the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will hold Cinema Rehiyon in Cagayan de Oro City on Feb. 19-22. This is one of the seven flagship programs during the Philippine Arts Festival (PAF) of NCCA.
Artist Mark Justiniani is an interesting person to talk to. Unlike other artists who find it difficult to talk about their work, preferring the pieces to speak for themselves, Justiniani is willing to engage people in conversation.
For most kids my age, Christmas is a time for celebration. It’s about family bonding, sharing with the less fortunate and, most of all, remembering the birth of Jesus Christ.
Here’s a recycling project just for the holidays: A 4-meter (13.2-feet) tall Christmas tree made of 1,100 empty bottles of champagne and sparkling water.
Beginning Jan. 4, Filipinos may enter Myanmar without a visa and stay there up to 14 days, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Saturday.
It strikes me as paradoxical that some of us can’t seem to wait to cross into the New Year. Life has become hurried enough as it is, why help it yet along? Technology in particular, with the ever-increasing efficiency and wonder it has been inspiring in infrastructure and gadgetry, has so altered the sense of time, especially for a senior like me, a day now feels a mere half of it; and as age slows me progressively, in inverse relation not only to technology but to just about everything else, I’d probably soon enough begin to lose a whole day scarcely realizing it.
The experience of shuttling back and forth from Manila to Ormoc and various parts of Bohol over the last six weeks has given me an even deeper appreciation of the importance of each day, the value of speaking from the heart and leaving nothing unsaid, and the grace of a grateful heart.
Love stories are always beautiful. But when they involve souls destined together, the beauty is accompanied by magic.
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