“To live is to keep going forward.” – Anonymous Going forward. These two words are easier said than done. Whether you are experiencing grief over the loss of someone, or get your heart broken over a breakup… Whether you failed a test or you lost a job… Whether it feels like your dream is slipping …
OPINION
Tourism and travel must bounce back
After two long years of pandemic lockdowns of businesses including hotels, resorts and other tourism establishments in the country, this is now the time to have the revenge tourism. Hotels and resorts are now gaining back the momentum of guests coming in. *** All parts of the country were hit by the pandemic and …
Mark of a good prayer
But normally, even in the worst scenario when we would be feeling low and dry in our prayer, the heart would still beat for love and concern for the others. Genuine prayer can have no other effect. If in prayer we are truly with God, we should also be with others. It cannot be any …
Christina: dental student, inventor
Christina never forgot what she considered the inconvenience of flossing. She has turned that around, this time with the Proxy-Flosser which makes it easier to floss for those with braces. In one motion, the dental tool flosses and cleans around braces – at half the time it took before for those with braces. A glue …
Tackling political issues
This might be considered a political issue itself, as contentious as any other. But I believe we can gather enough consensus to come out with some common rules to guide us on how to tackle political issues properly. Being political persons also, we cannot help but deal with issues that affect our lives as a …
Alternative lawyering and Neri Colmenares
Alternative lawyering is legal practice either individually or through legal resource organizations that work with the poor and marginalized groups, identities and communities toward their empowerment, greater access to justice, and building peace. By Dennis Gorecho Many alternative lawyers are guided by the words of former President Ramon Magsaysay: “Those who have less in life …
Let’s be quick on the rebound
With the wall of difficulties we are facing these days because of COVID, we have to see to it that we are quick on the rebound. We cannot simply be complacent, much less, defeatist or fatalist in our attitude toward our current predicament. There is always a rebound and we should be ready to seize …
On mental health and well-being
It appears however that Filipinos are generally sleep-deprived. In the 2016 AIA Healthy Living Index survey across 15 markets, the Philippines ranked 9th with one of the highest sleep deprivation rates in Asia. Nearly half (46%) of Filipino respondents said that they do not get enough sleep, while nearly a third said they sleep for …
What stirs our passions the most?
Our emotions and passions serve as a link between our body and soul that are the constituent components of our humanity. We are not spiritual souls only. Our spiritual soul always goes with its corresponding body with its emotions and passions. In heaven and in eternity as it is here on earth and in time, …
Gearing up new youth programs
We recently chaired a Senate Committee on Youth public hearing on measures that we believe could have a tremendous impact on young Filipinos, many of whom, for the past two years, have spent a considerable portion of their time indoors, and isolated from crowds and gatherings. For sure, the pandemic has yet to end. But …