Mindanao Writers' Blogs - A collection of Mindanao writers' blogs. - Part 103
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Billiard Balls and Seven Days of Music and Merriment

by Geejay Arriola — rehashed article from August 2004. l-r: Eric Gancio and Gary Granada Last night, musician-composers Gary Granada and Eric Gancio, playwright and recent Palanca Awardee Arnel Mardoquio, theatre artist and development worker Lyndee Prieto, and myself spent hours discussing physics, politics, business, theatre, education, and life at Eric’s house. I ...

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Rest in peace, the body will follow

by Geejay Arriola Artists of Kaliwat Theatre Collective and Mebuyan Peace Project arrived in Pagalungan at 9 am on June 24, 2003. A number of Moro women approached us, asking where we came from and thanked us for coming to join them. It was literally the hottest performance we ever had—we sang ...

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To the spiritual among us

i posted this one exactly one year ago tomorrow. i am reposting this in reply to the lynch mob who's lusting for my head because i make good use of my puwet a lot...EVERYTIME I get in a tangle with spiritual people -- and boy, there seem to be a lot ...

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Conversations from across space

LAST week’s column elicited an interesting online conversation about that spirit inside us that I see as the key to all our thoughts and actions.Bingbing8468, from the States, who was once my colleague when she was just a few years past her teens, wrote:“The inner spirit in you is ...

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GON’ PLACES: Pronto!

IT was an early deadline for me as I had to trek up a mountain and dive the depths of the ocean in the two days that I have reserved for panicking, and so I simply panicked early.This state found me with Dengdeng at Pronto Mario beside Paper Tree along Sta. Ana ...

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Women’s Rights

We, men and women, are the progeny of the same Supreme Consciousness. Women and men are equally divine and inherit similar and equal rights to life, liberty and expression. The significance of life does not lie only in living. Animals also live. But life to us means something more -- rather something ...

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viral infection

Comment moderation is not only useful in filtering unwanted, nasty and sometimes life threatening comments (Yes, I received tons two years ago when I professed admiration of Salman Rushdie and when I hinted on a critical analysis of Islam's holy book). It also comes handy in protecting your blog and computer from ...