Beauty

Raymund Fernandez 09/05/2017

The student was doing bas relief with clay of her cat sitting on a tree branch though we could not quite make out the tree branch for the fact it was just two diagonal lines in space.…

The persistence of the feudal and colonial

Raymund Fernandez 08/29/2017

Last Sunday I was fortunate enough to listen to a strongly worded statement from the Redemptorists condemning the spate of killings resulting from the “War on Drugs,” and how it has become a war against the poor.…

A dark and dangerous place

Raymund Fernandez 08/22/2017

We have to wonder how we brought ourselves — or how we were brought — to this dark and dangerous place. Who herded us here? It was not too long ago when the choice was ours to…

Empathy

Raymund Fernandez 08/15/2017

Were I asked what ability should an artist or writer have above everything else, my immediate answer would not have much to do with style and technique. My answer would be that the artist or writer should…

Simbako palayo

Raymund Fernandez 08/08/2017

I wanted to write one about the beauty of uncertainty. But almost immediately and as soon as I thought of it, I felt the need to warn myself against making frivolous such a topic as has such…

After Eden

Raymund Fernandez 07/25/2017

She came to me like the concept of God. She was already there came the time for me to wake up to the world, or discover the concept of I. She was already there from as long…

Friends

Raymund Fernandez 07/18/2017

From time to time, I wonder if I have done enough to take care of friends. A friend once wisely advised: Above everything else, take care of family and friends. After everything, they are all you really…

Stupid!

Raymund Fernandez 07/11/2017

Lacking intelligence or common sense” is how the dictionary defines it. “Stupid” is a funny word. And funniest when used in the act of name-calling; such as in a recent column by Rigoberto Tiglao for a national…

Looking for America

Raymund Fernandez 07/04/2017

To find America one has to search for it. A Filipino visitor, born and raised in the Philippines, who comes here only for a short visit will not find it the same way the immigrant Filipino finds…

To sleep

Raymund Fernandez 06/27/2017

From time to time, he has a problem sleeping. It does not bother him as much as it used to. He has grown used to it, grown used to its consequences for the next day — which,…

Shroom

Raymund Fernandez 06/13/2017

The time he tried it was all he needed to say: “Oh yeah, I tried that once. The mushroom is, of course, a substance. But does eating it qualify as substance abuse? What else do you do…

Huramentado

Raymund Fernandez 06/06/2017

The whole point of terror is to change us. . . . To change the way we look at ourselves, and even as this happens, to change the way we look at the world. We fear the…

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