Will your mother-in-law’s tongue lull you to sleep? Well, it did for me. The secret of this “quaint” sleeping arrangement was revealed to me by a Catholic nun, my cousin Sister Mary Anne of the Medical Mission Sisters, during a recent visit at their farm called Haven for Ecological Alternative Living (Heal) in Villasis town, Pangasinan province.
The book “Weaving Cultures: The Invention of Colonial Art and Culture in the Philippines, 1565-1850,” by Fr. Rene Javellana, SJ,...