In his 2nd State of the Union Address Tuesday last week, US President Joe Biden told members of Congress that the climate crisis is a “reality” and encompassing, it has no colors nor boundaries.
As he pointed out: “Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.”
In this virus time, it gives me goose bumps to hear the word contagious. However, this is not about COVID’s virulence that we hear and read day in and day out with our ears already oozing with information overload. I am talking about the contagion effect on the act of kindness of Ana Patricia Non in putting up the first ever community pantry along Maginhawa Street in Diliman, Quezon City.
It’s devoid of political color. It was born out of sincere concern for the people in her community who lost their means of livelihood, are suffering and in dire strait because of the pandemic.