An 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 ArticleThank you, President Obama
A letter to our 44th president in his last term “WE have a right and duty to protect our borders. We can insist to those already here that with citizenship come obligations — to a common language,...
View ArticleDaring greatly: From the Capitol Dome to the White House
“MUCH of the beauty of light owes its existence to the dark. The most powerful moments of our lives happen when we string together the small flickers of light created by courage, compassion, and...
View ArticleUnstoppable: the values of single-sex education and co-education
JULIET Williams, a professor of gender studies at UCLA, wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, entitled “What’s Wrong with single-sex schools? A lot.” She concludes that single-sex schools perpetuate...
View ArticleAway from guns to a national culture of finding grace and peace within
“IN watching the coverage of the murders that have taken place in Connecticut, the same arguments prevail from the last shootings we have witnessed: ‘the guy who did this was mentally deranged,...
View ArticleFrom collective indifference to a culture of compassion and mercy
“THE American dream is in crisis, [Robert] Putnam argues, because Americans used to care about other people’s kids and now they only care about their own kids. But, he [Robert Putnam] writes,”America’s...
View ArticlePakikipagkapwa and understanding gays’ self-worth as equal to straights
“ALL genuinely Filipino values thrive on sharing, rather than comparing, and operate within fields: the core concept kapwa considers the social field as much as the individual by sharing the Self.” —...
View ArticleSpotlight: Truth, justice, mercy and Catholic priests
POPE Francis declared a Jubilee Year of Mercy, and from the Vatican’s website, “The Church is celebrating the Holy Year of Mercy, a time of grace, peace, conversion and joy. It is meant for everyone:...
View ArticleYosemite National Park: A national treasure never for sale
“YOSEMITE Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, waiting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantage of both solitude and society. Nowhere will you find...
View ArticleReview: A diner’s first pop-up experience at Unit 120’s Cubiertos
“To cook for oneself is always boring in the end; to cook for others, or better still for the one other, that is certainly an act of faith and love. Believe me, there is no cuisine without love” – M....
View ArticleHeart-centered parenting for child’s potential to bloom
“THE heart controls the energy flow by opening and closing. This means that the heart, like a valve, can either allow the flow of energy to pass through, or it can restrict the flow of energy from...
View ArticleA love letter to my mother: Gone too soon
“HOW does God come to me as I listen to the word? Where do I discern the healing hand of God touching me through the word? How are my sadness, my grief, and my mourning being transformed at this very...
View ArticleHearts at peace
“LOVE is elicited in therapy, in medicine, and in education by the caring conversation, the intimate confessions, and by the listening alone. Listening to another and caring for their welfare can be...
View ArticleReflections on the 2008, 2012 and 2016 presidential elections
“WHILE we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to...
View Article‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End’
“Our lives are inherently dependent on others and subject to forces and circumstances beyond our control. Having more freedom seems better than having less…The amount of freedom you have in your life...
View ArticleBoldly be present to love and joy
“LOVE is life force. I believe that the creative spirit is nothing less than love made manifest. I see love as the essential nature of all that supports life. Love is opposed to the death of the dream....
View ArticleCelebrating CSUN’s Dept. of Asian American Studies: legacy of purpose and...
“TO our invaluable founders and distinguished community guests, I want to acknowledge, [as] our student attendees, and everyone in our alumni community. Earlier, I raised the question, “What good is a...
View ArticleAre you part of nation’s doom or commitment to the common good?
“WE talk about what is important to hold on to – their connections to their community, the worth of their culture, and the lives of the people they have grown up with; how to be your own person and to...
View ArticleMy reflections on the 2016 Philippine elections
“WHEN I interviewed Rodrigo Duterte for the ‘Philippines Graphic’ prior to his declaration to run for President, he told me: ‘I am not interested in being the President. I do not like to be President....
View ArticleThe best kind of friends: Violinist inspires poet and writer
“ALTHOUGH April in Paris is a time of budding trees and brilliant gardens, the sights to be seen in Paris are often not out and about in the streets but in the carefully lit rooms of galleries, most...
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