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Rothko. Van Gogh. Monet. These artists, like many famous ones throughout history, have been known to have struggled with mental health conditions. Art and mental illness are also connected in the way that mental illness can influence…
The Carlos Palanca Foundation, Inc., the sponsor and organizer of the 69th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, is reminding aspiring authors to submit entries for this year’s literary contest before the May 31, 2019 deadline. This…
The bleating woke me up. We had spent the night at Cabo San Miguel, a beach resort in Owak, Asturias, Cebu, and in the morning I heard a goat cry. I got up and opened the door…
December – how quickly we have moved into the month, and so imperceptibly that it makes no sense now to say, from there to here. We saw no thresholds, we made no entrances. Except that we had…
Thank God for corners. If this coffee shop were oval, at a busy time, people would tend to get in the way of each other, because movement strays from the center and follows a straight line. Or…
I cannot recall when I first saw the sea. Things like that – like discovering the neighborhood or tasting fish for the first time ever – swim into one’s consciousness while one is unaware. Who knows if…
Not too long ago, while travelling to the south of the island, we chanced upon a river that had split into two. The municipal government had deemed it practical to reroute it, but when a typhoon bore…
One of the malls we visited while in Manila years ago had a patio with a ring of little fountains around a big one, which at intervals hurled a tall column of water into the air. I…
The sea offers a most exhilarating view. At high tide, as the breeze touches the face with the softest of feathers, the water sways, trying to balance itself. But from a distance the unevenness of the waves…
Just in front of our house lies a lot, whose owner we do not know, which, seeing it too long idle, someone in the village turned into a garden that now grows maize, beans and okra. Daily…
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