Apologia

Raymund Fernandez 05/14/2016

Sunday Kinutil is being retired and from hereon Kinutil may be read still on the Wednesday edition of this paper. This particular essay happily celebrates this honorable ending of what was for this writer difficult though fulfilling…

Sleeping giant

Raymund Fernandez 05/07/2016

Kinutil Time now to revisit a rewording of an old Chinese proverb that he who seeks power by riding the back of a tiger always ends up inside. It is an adage for dangerous times, a moral…

The deluge

Raymund Fernandez 04/30/2016

Kinutil One has to suspend disbelief to grasp it entirely but it is there in front of us. And we would see it much more clearly if ever we spent the day of the elections in a…

A small matter of conscience

Raymund Fernandez 04/26/2016

Kinutil All these remind me of lines from a song in Pink Floyd’s album, “Dark Side of the Moon”: Us and Them And after all we’re only ordinary men Me, and you God only knows it’s not…

Surviving Facebook

Raymund Fernandez 04/23/2016

Take nothing seriously. What you see in the social networks has the value of literature. They suggest  reality but one must understand: They have as much value as fantasy. Otherwise, we end up feeling distraught when, in…

Change is a sacred word

Raymund Fernandez 04/16/2016

Kinutil Perfect is not what things are. But they are not even half as bad as how things were in 1986 when we gathered in the streets to put a final end to Marcos’ martial law. It…

The cause of peace

Raymund Fernandez 04/12/2016

The end result of freedom is chaos.” This is a continuing topic of discussion in the class of art history I am teaching. It is a continuing discussion, of course, because the veracity of the assertion cannot…

Ugly face

Raymund Fernandez 04/09/2016

There is a wall along Escario St. famous in Cebu City for being some sort of freedom wall. Graffiti artists paint on the wall their art, layers upon layers of it. The art is continually changed and…

Decision making in government

Raymund Fernandez 04/07/2016

Reflections from Paseo de Coro Governance is about making a decision and how that decision is done. But what kind of decisions are made? For what purpose are they made? How are these decisions arrived at? Who has…

The ghost of Sukarno

Raymund Fernandez 04/05/2016

Kinutil One has to be slow with making judgements about the Kidapawan incident where one protestor was reportedly killed and several injured in the clash between police and protestors on the national highway. Several narratives are coming…

Elias graduating

Raymund Fernandez 03/29/2016

His son, Elias Leon, is graduating grade school today, yesterday by the time this sees print. He is graduating from South Hills International School. Elias is not too nervous for doing this; even though his class will…

St. Peter’s rooster

Raymund Fernandez 03/26/2016

The early evening Good Friday drive back to the city from their old hometown was made memorable by a red  moon rising from the hills. Blood-red orb peeking through  the silhouette of coconut trees; it looked huge…

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