Category Journal
Today, for the first time in what might be more than a decade, I finished reading a novel. I haven’t picked up fiction since my lazy afternoons in Tacloban as a college transferee, lost and suspended in life. It isn’t… Continue Reading →
After years of “exile” from the cinema, I got to watch in a movie house again thanks to some generous friends ;). I wouldn’t have guessed the first film I’d see would be John Wick 4 as I’m not fond… Continue Reading →
I discovered something I could fast from this Lent: Maxim rides. The dawn of habal-habal apps has truly been one of the better things that happened to commuters like me. Motorbikes may be a traffic soar but to ordinary citizens… Continue Reading →
I wonder if we truly know the taste of such a mystery as waiting. Often, waiting is only thought as idle inaction and the world never does that. We often pass the time from one minute to another with much… Continue Reading →
There are different seasons of life. We may be in a season of beginnings or challenges or transitions. And sometimes we are in the season of darkness. It is a period of time that is not at all easy to… Continue Reading →
Are we not constantly in the disposition of waiting? During the course of a day, waiting for the water to boil, waiting for people’s replies, waiting for a ride. In a lifetime, waiting to begin, waiting to figure out things,… Continue Reading →
I had a little retreat, the Ignatian way, that finished yesterday, and I am delightfully surprised how beautiful it was for something so short. I even received a precious gift from the Father with this verse, “Though the mountains leave… Continue Reading →