Singer/producer Maria Garcia Kocher’s ‘intimate’ concert with Lirio Vital,...
“With all the brilliance and fire of a true virtuoso…warm, sensitive, exciting, and totally honest.” –Marian McPartland describing Ingrid Jensen, a jazz artist. Ingrid Jensen’s attributes fit Mon David...
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A tribute to her mother Frances Noble Ignacio “What makes Frances special, and I might be biased as she has been with me: performing, working, going to nursing school, she would ask ‘how are you...
View Article‘How high can the rocket fly, Mom?’
Carlo De La Cruz’s aphorisms “ROCKETS take advantage of some basic laws of nature that were discovered by the brilliant scientist Isaac Newton late in the 17th century. One of these, called Newton’s...
View ArticleThe power to vote in America for citizens of Filipino-American descent
“KEEP exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”...
View ArticleDrought-driven changes: Balancing profits with common good
“FARMERS and teachers are not factory workers. Good peaches and good students must be grown slow. Trees and young minds are certainly not machines. Just as there’s an art to farming, there’s an art to...
View ArticleC. Joe Sayas, Jr., Esq.: A Game Changer wins $11,040,000 for Port Truck Drivers
“BUT he [George Moriarty] wrote something where I think he did what I tried to do in this [John Wooden] pyramid. He called it the road ahead or the road behind. He said, “Sometimes, I think the fates...
View Article‘The most craven part of Dolezal’s charade’
“NONE of that required Dolezal to be black. In fact, civil rights battles benefit from the support of white allies. When I was in high school, my black history teacher was a white woman who pushed us...
View ArticleChoose not to keep racism alive in America’s consciousness
“I THINK the time is right and the ground is fertile for us to make progress as a state and to come together and remove the Confederate battle flag from prominent statue outside the Statehouse and put...
View ArticleGrowing our internal souls: Freedom from internal gray waters
“A REVOLUTION is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future… It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human...
View ArticleIntimacy
“INTIMACY doesn’t mean that both people are perfect. It doesn’t even mean that one person is perfect. It means that two people understand that we are all wounded and we are all here to be healed. The...
View ArticleGrowing non-racist children as HERO (Honest, Exemplary, Respectful and...
“RACISM is a physical experience. The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe...
View ArticleTo do what is humane, right and just
“OUR commitment to justice will be measured not by whether we will get the bill passed, but whether we will harness our collective energies to correct a grave injustice. We cannot lose faith in our...
View ArticleRacism should be museum artifact, not in our hearts and minds!
“THIS is a lesson for each of us, but also for the church of our time: If we let ourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, if we are able to mortify our selfishness to make room for the Lord’s love and for...
View ArticleHiroshima Peace Memorial Message: No more nuclear bombs and lost tomorrows
“LET no more children fall victim to an atomic bombing.” – Children’s Peace Monument, Hiroshima, Japan. “Based on their own experiences and carrying in their hearts the voices and feelings of those...
View ArticleRamona Silva Haar’s radiant masterpieces using Mother Earth’s palette of...
Modern adage tells us that when artistry meets design and quality in execution, the result is a masterpiece. Have you heard of these jewelry designing giants: Boucheron, Buccellati, Bulgari, Chaumet,...
View ArticleReverence for Mother Earth
“This situation has led to a constant schizophrenia, wherein a technocracy which sees no intrinsic value in lesser beings coexists with the other extreme, which sees no special value in human beings....
View ArticlePost-pageant reflections: BP-USA 2015’s queen and court
“Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long living...
View ArticleImelda Rodriguez: teaching with passion and purpose
“WHAT should we focus on in the context of “too much information” in “too little time” requiring “too many intended outcomes?” Content or Process? Factual Information or Conceptual Knowledge? Linear or...
View ArticleBb. Pilipinas USA 2015’s Juanne Elisha Aquino: From church cantor to beauty...
“What’s the point of being at the top if you would just be boasting? You should just level down to people and bring them up with you. There’s no point since you are already up there, people are...
View ArticleCan you live a life without Faith?
WHY is St. Paul not in contradiction with St. James? How is it that we are told we have God’s grace and that faith without actions, is dead? St. Paul condemned the sins of pride, hypocrisy, favoritism...
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