coffeeshop | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 4
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A Smile is Forever

November 21, 1919-August 2, 1996

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The Golden Rule…

…seems to be that when one joins the public service, one should make the most out of it—or so it literally appears in this photo I took last year inside the provincial capitol ...

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Sa wakas…

That’s Koko under a pool shower, a scene which best describes how refreshing a homecoming is. I came back last weekend from an eight-day mostly land trip ...

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Rainy Day in Zamboanga

This is impossible.   I won’t mention the name ...

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What a Laugh, Getting Old

Being in denial (defiance?) of the onslaught of ageing, I'd pretty well managed to ignore it. But, well, one can only struggle ...

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What today’s better leaders tell young Americans

I'm reprinting this here not only because it's a good story. It's also because one of the speakers mentioned is Jim Wallis, editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. Back in the mid-1980s, we at the then Mindanao Sulu Secretariat for Social Action religiously subscribed to Wallis' magazine. Such a well-written publication was one of ...

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If you’ve got it, flaunt it…

… although that doesn’t quite apply to the photo. But if you think something in you makes you special, some quality or ability that’s otherwise secreted from the public eye, you’d do well to show it off. ...