WE should grieve over these: to wake up one day with not one but two independent bookstores viciously vandalized, the signages ruined by red letters. Tagged. Branded. Judged. The letters are done in a hurry as if illicitly committed by phantom markers. Or thieves ready to run. Or mad men.…
IF history, to paraphrase John Maynard Keynes, has a course that is shaped by ideas, then it is the mind and its capacity to remember, and to forget, that maintains the presence of the past in our lives. In the face of our greater assumption how history seems to carry…
Ash Wednesday is happening as I annotate. On TV screen, the news says, the ritual of inscribing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful would take place once more. For the last two years, the Church looking to the body and not the soul, decided that it was wise for…
Edsa began for me on the evening of the 22nd of February 1986. There were no words of revolution but there was a growing unease and tedium among the population. Cory Aquino, with the crowd she drew during meetings, and with the fact that she was not perceived as a…
WE feel it every day. We dread the moments each day. The cause of this anxiety is not the real world, that which we are in physically. We are not always anymore in a sensual universe where tactility rules. An online space has taken over our lives, conflating consciousness whether…