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Along the road we dropped into a hardware store for something we almost forgot–bathroom hooks to hang the towels on. We had earlier loaded into the car two doormats, a rice cooker, an electric stove and a…
I just received a call from an online shopping company. I was told that they would be delivering my order, and that I should be ready with the payment. They asked for directions, and I gave them…
The Transfiguration” ranks among the Scottish poet Edwin Muir’s better known poems. As its title suggests, the poem relates to Christ’s Transfiguration as narrated in the Gospels. Mark for one, writes that Jesus took Peter, James and…
Ash Wednesday arrived one day after the storm. The skies had cleared but still bore traces of the turbulence of the previous days, which, while without gale-force winds, unleashed an endless pour of rain, causing floods and…
While militant leftist leaders are usually expected to denounce government policies and programs at a drop of the hat, the mixed reactions from local officials and even some rights advocates on the guidelines released by the Department…
Better late than never, the programs initiated by the Cebu provincial government to stem the tide of youths seeking pleasure or refuge from the storms of life in illegal drugs deserves the support of all concerned. All…
The 19th-century French painter James Tissot was a contemporary of Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet. But, instead of adopting their impressionism, he stuck to his realistic method. He painted fashionable women, as well as people and scenes…
John Ruskin considered Raphael’s Ansidei Madonna “one of the most perfect pictures of the world.” Raphael was in his early twenties when he did the painting, which Niccolò Ansidei had commissioned for a family chapel in honor…
In March 1481, the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopelo in Florence commissioned Leonardo da Vinci, then 29 years old, to make a painting for their altar. Leonardo began working on the “Adoration of the Magi”,…
Another year, and so it starts again, This back and forth of customary time. Even the rains (must be a storm again, But still too far to make landfall again). How do we mark beginnings with all…
About waiting, I ask myself what my most memorable experience of it would be. At my age, I should be able to recall not just one but many. There were joyful waitings, of course, the most recent…
From time to time, as we drove through Maryland to West Virginia, I would catch sight of three crosses atop a mountain. At first I thought that the drowsiness induced by the six-hour drive had tricked my…
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