I first met Mang Pandoy in 1989. He grew all kinds of vegetables then on a strip of cogon land inside the UP campus, and I was one of his regular customers. I distinctly remember how this city farmer jauntily watered his plants, balancing a pole on his shoulders with two sprinklers on both ends. … Read more
Civility is the art of living with others. It is also what we so terribly lack in this country. Those who have money, power and technology go about their daily business, completely unmindful of the effects they create on the life circumstances of others. The State, whose function it is ideally to balance these effects … Read more
It was as if a memory nerve had been activated, and it could not be switched off even after the lights had gone out in the studio. Lola Juanita’s sharing on Public Forum last Monday was the most gripping and also the most pained. We were talking of war memories and Japanese apology. Juanita Jamot … Read more
I am certain that the late Gerry Gil of the Standard would have postponed his death by at least a week if only so he could read what his friends and admirers have written about him after his untimely passing. But hasn’t this always been the unhappy side of dying? That we do not get … Read more