In Search of Holy Places
I had envied Manny Pacquiao. To have had the awe, the reverence and esteem of every Filipino was a formidable gift from the heavens. Our streets are empty when there is a Pacquiao fight. In fact, the crime rates go down. Every Filipino is glued to the screen, in wonder and respect, watching their idol […]
MoreYou’re in the labyrinth and you have 13 hours to solve it. Dance the tango of life and death and do it like a goblin king or a badass damsel in a romantic dress. This life should explode with meaning. Fill the shadows with as much light as you can muster. And leave a blazing trail.
MoreTonight is the Twelfth Night, tomorrow the Epiphany, the Feast of the Three Kings, the day that marks the end of Christmas. The Visit of the Magi was once celebrated around the world, in different traditions. In the Czech Republic, people dress up as kings, wearing furs and hats woven from straw and decorated with […]
MoreToday, a friend’s father passed on. I am at that age when parents grow old. When life demands we welcome the withering of those we once found invincible. When we start marking more and more folds in the eyes of the ones we looked up to. When they begin to stoop and we are now […]
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The Girl and the Grail 