Learn to love one Body. Love several bodies and then realize that the love for the body is less than the love for the soul. Love customs and tradition. Love knowledge for its own sake. Finally, experience beauty. According to George Dickie (“Aesthetics: An Introduction”), these were Plato’s suggested steps for coming to understand beauty [...]
In the old “modern” days it was the style to resolve all issues proposed especially in writing. If the Maker wrote an essay, for instance, about the Reproductive Health (RH) bill you would expect that by the end of the essay he would have resolved the issue if not completely then at least to a [...]
That must be one of the most irritating questions one can ask another on any day of the week. But especially on a lazy Sunday such as this. The Maker’s friends warn him never to ask anyone this question. Leave conversion to the missionaries, they order. And take note, the best of them never appear [...]
The Maker waits sitting in the basketball court of Tapon, Dumanjug, writing this article on his laptop. There is a street dancing fest about to happen. His brother, Vicente, is the new Baranggay Captain here. It is a hot early afternoon. The speakers are blaring away, children running everwhere, some looking over his shoulders to [...]
Nothing entertains quite as much as success and of all possible successes one might put on the table for discussion, nothing entertains quite as much as one’s own success. You must not blame anyone for thinking this way. God or was it evolution so designed organisms to behave this way. Everything that’s alive today got [...]
