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Kinutil It was a wonderfully enjoyable circus. And it was even more enjoyable at the fringes, in the streets, where the candidates supporters gathered trying to outdo each other with their numbers and the amount of noise…
Good essays are supposed to address everyone. Let’s let him write a bad one, something to seem like a personal address to a particular someone out there he hasn’t seen for quite a long time. This is…
Kinutil Incredulity is the “state of being unwilling or unable to believe something.” It is a good word to have in these times. The late author Umberto Eco gives quite a discussion of it in his book…
Kinutil He wonders: What would I do if my children should say to me: The years of martial law were the golden years of the Philippines? I would certainly feel quite a bit of pain. But I…
Kinutil Change is a sacred word. Especially for those of us who came of age in the 1970s. Who lived through the monstrosity that was martial law and made it through to 1986 when we thought the…
Kinutil He heard how Umberto Eco had passed away last week. He heard this from his wife, who read this from CNN through her cellphone. Though he waited, he missed it in the cable feed, if it…
Kinutil Two opposite assertions always seem to arise in the course of election campaigns. One is that the country is going all to hell and we need change. The second is that we are already getting better…
Kinutil The ancient Greek philosophers observed how societies often follow cycles of change and degeneration. Democracy often degenerates into something simply described as the rule of the mob; mob, being synonymous to “people.” Many of the old…
Kinutil And the young woman asked: What is your way of getting over the writers block? He had no easy answer to that one. But his thoughts led him to ask himself: Why is it that to…
Kinutil He came across a letter allegedly from Pope Francis, which letter was his advice for maintaining a good marriage. Francis placed great stress on forgiveness and family. This is Kinutil’s take on the same topic: Freedom…
There was a particular way they both entered into each others’ lives. And as is often the case with these things, they hardly noticed each other until they were finally there. They entered into each other’s lives…
We all began with stone. That is, if we look at us, craftspeople, as a planetary collective. Take one stone harder than another; use the harder stone to shape the softer one. And, voila!: the adze, the…
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