Ninoy’s ghost

Raymund Fernandez 08/21/2018

So who’s afraid of Ninoy’s ghost? Not those who remember EDSA. Not those who remember how Ninoy joined our country together for a brief period of our history, for which brief period we can still be proud…

Escape

Raymund Fernandez 08/14/2018

The truth is relative. It is not subjective. Relative means each of us will be affected by truth in different and singular ways relative to who, what, and where we are. But the truth is not up…

Dinner at Sunzibar

Raymund Fernandez 07/24/2018

Sometimes good fortune comes to us. Otherwise, we really have to search for it. It is true I could have gone somewhere else on what the balmy weather promised to be an almost perfect Saturday. This place,…

Stupid!

Raymund Fernandez 07/03/2018

God can very well take perfect care of Himself. What dent in the cosmos can another insult against Him affect? Nothing… Except to make us laugh. A grown man, this powerful, pursuing his childish war against Christianity…

The Social Contract

Raymund Fernandez 06/05/2018

Such a long time has passed since I read “The Social Contract” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. I can hardly quote him directly now, other than by the internet summaries that are easily accessed. We took him up in…

Having fun

Raymund Fernandez 05/29/2018

Its been years since I saw a Pop/Rock concert. Last week, I went finally with family to “Songs of Summer,” an evening show of local bands. I had fun. Most likely because the bands were having fun…

The song of a house

Raymund Fernandez 04/03/2018

I can hear it distinctly, to be sure, a soft voice on the edge of the range of hearing. I know I am hearing it, a faint humming with a soothing rhythmic time, like a nocturne from…

Sacred

Raymund Fernandez 03/27/2018

Can you measure the sacredness of a thing? By the standards of Wikipedia, to be sacred means to be “dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration.” This implies that as long as something is dedicated…

Hands

Raymund Fernandez 03/20/2018

What seems a small conundrum for older people could have the weight of epiphany for the young. I am using epiphany here in the old sense of the Greeks, which Wikipedia tells us means, “an experience of…

Ugly

Raymund Fernandez 03/13/2018

Plato said, beauty is the “object of love;” Aquinas, that beauty is that which “pleases when seen…” Both believed that beauty is universal, true for all and everywhere, unchanging, immutable; As if it went according to the…

Graffiti

Raymund Fernandez 03/06/2018

Freedom is a funny thing. Some people go through life thinking it is all about doing everything “the man” tells you. Others think the opposite. And yet, either way could be right. It all depends on a…

USC Press launches coffee table book “Kamingaw”

02/20/2017

USC Press launched Kamingaw: An Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana on January 10 at the Cebu Country Club. This is a joint effort that takes pride with the wonders of the local art…

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