July 2007
10 posts
Summer's Bittersweet End.
Loneliness embraced me when I found myself drowning in emptiness. This happened to me immediately when I boarded the plane bound for Manila. I had just finished spending the summer with all my children and already I missed them terribly. But in spite of this familiar feeling, I still did not want to be accustomed to it. Because when I went through this 20 years ago, it nearly broke my...
June 2007
5 posts
The Pinoy Pilgrim is a Friend of Mine
[The opportunity to write and be part of this great book has certainly been an honor.] The Unlikely Pilgrim Pinoy Pilgrim, the book destined to shake the Filipino psyche so that we can all look into ourselves to discover a fresher perspective is finally off the press. I was one of the privileged few to have been able to read the draft before it even came to print. Pinoy Pilgrim is an...
The Signal of a Smile.
I have yet to see another couple as in love as my Tatay and Nanay. In his deathbed, Tatay promised Nanay that he would always watch for her through heaven’s window. He was going ahead of her because he needed the time to explore this new world that God was bringing him to; all he knew for sure was that this was going to be their paradise together. Tatay also promised that when it was time for...