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One ought expect that Christmas month would be 31 days of easy relaxation and fun. But not so for us in professions where work always picks up rather than ease off with the coming of Christmas. For…
And so he remembers as in a dream a memory of himself, one morning, half a century ago, finding a mound of orange clay in the backyard of their house in the city. A group of builders…
And yet it is true that the preoccupation with fame can get out of hand. Fame and the pursuit of it is admittedly inevitable in the contemporary age. It is inevitable in this age of information where…
And yet, there must be a primordial reason why humans gravitate toward fame. Whether to love or hate famous people, we all enjoy reading or knowing about them. This ambivalence of love and hate is inevitable. Nothing…
Thumbs up for the thumb. Thumbs facilitated the growth of human civilization by giving humans the ability to grasp objects and use these as tools. Humans were always defined by the things they did with their hands.…
“Do you ever thank God for making you short?” Fr. Justin, not a quite tall man, asked this at a homily last week. This led the kinutil man, seated near the end pews, to remember a short…
It is natural for humans to look with suspicion and latent hatred at those more powerful than them. And so the current propensity to hate US Americans is understandable especially among those who might suffer in some…
It always bothers him to think how easily the world is changed by people who would do what few others are willing to do, acts so unthinkable they qualify as inhuman. And he wonders: What can move…
Sumad Kwarenta” is ongoing at the Little Gallery of the University of the Philippines Cebu campus in Lahug. This is an art exhibition of works from alumni and teachers of the UP Cebu Fine Arts Program. Established…
It may well be that the thought of it came from Democritus, the laughing philosopher, the mocker of everything. Or it may have come from his teacher, Leucippus, credited to be the founder of atomism. Wikipedia tells…
What a blessed time he has now. Now he can talk to his children like there were old friends. He sees himself in them, of course; and it feels to him as if he is plumbing his…
It took him quite a bit of time learning how to touch-type. In the ‘70s, typing was a subject you could still take in school, usually under a university’s “Secretarial” program. His older sisters took subjects like…
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