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THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS
Newtown Traffic (Photo credit: jemsweb) Kew’s Richard Wilford at work (Photo credit: Kew on Flickr) Our hearts are broken today. [US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA on the massacre of 20 schoolchildren, six...
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WORDS AND HEALING
A child in grief, photo from Trade Arabia Along with America, I and every father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt mourn the loss of the beautiful children of Newtown, Connecticut, all twenty of...
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DANCING AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. When someone commented that Gertrude Stein did not look like her portrait, Pablo Picasso replied, “She will.” (Photo credit:...
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THE QUESTION IS WHO ARE YOU?
SELF-EXPRESSION One of my six-year-old niece Rafa Patawaran‘s collection of girls in pretty dresses and an assortment of hairstyles. “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” —...
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IF BY RUDYARD KIPLING
OF WISE MEN Rudyard Kipling in his study (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A reader of my book, Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Style Dictator, “an old man of six decades going seven, who...
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INSTADDICTION
ROADSIDE VIEW Sisters Rafa and Georges Patawaran, my nieces, on the road to our #instaholiday on the beach, Christmas 2012 in Baler, Aurora Forgive me if I offend you If I stray from the moment in...
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LIFE AND DEATH
Doom by Charlie Adlard (Photo credit: PatLoika) Comic-Con 2010 – Walking Dead booth (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I wrote a 441-word essay in a past post about The Walking Dead, of which I am an avid fan,...
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LUCKY [20]THIRTEEN
JOY OF READING The mural at Fully Booked at Bonifacio High Street in Manila is all about reading as well as as its metaphors uncaging birds, unlocking boxes, opening doors, flight, locomotion… To rock...
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DAILY PROMPT: KICK IT
Yann Martel‘s Life of Pi is, to borrow from the book’s own definition of life, ‘a peephole,’ a 100-chapter ‘entry onto a vastness.’ This picture is from the film adaptation, which I hope will be just...
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DON’T ASK ME WHO MY FAVORITE IS
Don’t ask me what or who my favorite is If I were king, would it be a mistress? An intimate affair that is an open secret I like the clouds but they are not my favorites Or if they are, so are the...
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