Remembering Lean Alejandro: A short life well-spent
“IF you go to someone’s home and they offer you their food, they’re giving something of themselves. Once people give, then their heart is involved. Giving – making your contribution – is what brings...
View ArticlePope Francis: The world is our common home
At the White House, Washington, D.C. (First of Two Series) “FIRST. Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words. Second. Love consists in a mutual communication between the two persons....
View ArticleIn Need of Human Connection: An evening of comfort and hope
“The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth...
View ArticlePope Francis’ trip to the US: God’s awesome love and its revolution of...
(Second of Two Series) “MAKE ready for the Christ, whose smile like lightning, sets free the song of everlasting glory that now sleeps—in your paper flesh.” —Thomas Merton “It [Pope Francis’ visit] was...
View ArticleInfants’ spiritual lessons for nurturing parents/grandparents
“IN the infant stage, the primary spiritual agenda revolves around oneness and togetherness. This is when the deepest bonding takes place. The child and parent infuse each other, rhythmically...
View ArticleCelerity’s Ease on Down the Oz Road
An Asian Journal Exclusive “If you are reaching down inside yourself and bringing your creative impulses to light, your self-esteem will grow daily. It doesn’t matter if your creative product is a...
View ArticleAn American President in training: Madame Hillary Clinton
“YOU can no more resign citizenship in time of war than you can resign from the human race.” — Wayne Collins “If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment...
View ArticleAn open letter to the House and Senate
Please legislate and don’t obstruct by abusing the process “EACH son or daughter of a given country has a mission, a personal and social responsibility. Your own responsibility as members of Congress...
View ArticleOdette Quesada’s splendor released
OPM Then and Now: A Concert at Aratani Japan Theater “Keep your mind open. Don’t mortgage your future by making or taking vows. Be receptive to the continuous unfoldment of the Truth in and through...
View ArticlePlaridel: Nom de plume to PAPC’s awards for journalism excellence
“DI kailangan, kapatid ko, ang magbukas ka’t bumasa ng pilosopiya, o nang teolohiya at iba pang karunungan upang maranasan mo ang kadakilaan nang Dios. (You don’t have, my brother, to have to open and...
View ArticleSpurring on art excellence, a unifier for a community
“IT is refreshing to see other Filipinos succeed. It fills my soul with inexplicable joy. Very inspiring life stories. More power to your endeavors. Let us spur on each other to excellence and...
View ArticleEyewitnesses to upheaval and recovery work by volunteers in Leyte and Samar
“I LEARN to embrace my difficulties as spiritual challenges that shape me and make me deeply human. I learn that when I can go toward the things that frighten me, then I am free. — Gail Straub, Circle...
View ArticleTriumphant Nilo Alcala on world-acclaimed Walt Disney Hall
“Last night we experienced Filipino musical creativity at the highest level. But Nilo’s work goes beyond merely evoking Filipino Pride. He reveals not just a refreshing sensitivity to a larger cultural...
View ArticleHarana Men’s Chorus: Singing OPMs of the past, present and future
“I LEARNED playing Mozart on the violin for years, that reality got altered for me when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her tears were from the past, her dream of opening her jewelry store,...
View ArticlePalates sing and give thanks to Chef Romy Dorotan
“WHEN asked to describe Romy’s [Dorotan] cooking, I often say, “It’s fusion but coming from the other direction.” By that I mean he’s not a Western chef who went to Thailand on a cruise and discovered...
View ArticleWill gun violence be America’s lasting legacy to the world?
“…The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there [is] peace and tranquility.” — Devdutt Pattanaik “If you do not understand the Golden Rule,...
View ArticleRonald Cortez: Parable of talents spurred his art to excellence
“IN hula, the dancers became one with everything in nature. They bent, swayed and gestured, moving in countless ways to tell countless stories, most of which had deep meanings. Behind these graceful,...
View ArticleLet’s fill up our empathy tanks
“OPINION is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in...
View ArticleThe Family of Jesus Christ: A Simbang Gabi homily by Rev. Fr. Rodel Balagtas
“CAN you by worrying about yourself, change the person you really are? Does your anxious thought help to pay bills, does it make your work succeed, does it reap the harvest or fill the barn? You are a...
View ArticleThe 2015 Rhizomes articles that resonated with readers
2015 was a surprise. With a newborn apo this year, I was not sure how my writing would be affected, as my husband and I became co-caregivers with her paternal grandma. My apo turned out to be my muse,...
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