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LATEST ARTICLES ( 60 )

• The Love Within Us

  Do you have something about Self-Love? This is not the exact question I heard four years ago, but I presume this one is the nearest. It was after a workshop I... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2015 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• On Pain

  My left lower molar has no damage, said my dentist-friend, though it was sensitive to too much cold and heat. She tapped it lightly with her dental instrument. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Loving Our Questions

  She was like an expert balasador, flashing a deck of index cards on the table. Every student in the class gave her one card with our name on it. The whole... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2015 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• The Waste We Make

  Styrofoam containers, stained red with spaghetti sauce. Each had left-over noodles, fried chicken bones and crumbs from its crispy breading. Used and oily... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2015 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• This is FLOW

  It was Mothers’ Day this year, May 10. I was in the company of eccentric people like myself. Some of them write for a living. Others teach. The rest just write. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2015 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• To Slow Down

  A city is supposed to be fast, and its time is always speeding. But the whole Metro Manila learns the opposite – it slows down. Its road traffic trickles like a... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2015 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Why People Leave

  We keep on hearing these stories: people, mostly men, who walk away from their relationships, or worst their families, stealthily, often without goodbyes, or... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2015 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• In Me

  

  photo by Camil Tulcan | Flickr.comI punched him in the face, hitting his nose and moist gums with my right knuckle. I was fed up with his taunting while trying... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2014 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Yaman: A Baybayin Meditation

  

  YAMAN (YA-MA) design by Rem TanauanNo matter how familiar they appear to me, through many occasions of writing and reading, Baybayin characters remain open to... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2014 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Higher Selfie

  

  Microsoft ImageSince I rarely take my own pictures, it seems puzzling to me of what motivates people taking many pictures of themselves. In these pictures they... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Open Friends

  

  Rajesh_India | flickrWith only a few texts and online messages, a friendship between people who have not yet seen for years is seemingly starved from attention... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Thank You

  

  Paul Downey | Flickr.comTeʂekkür. The word twisted my tongue (it sounds t’sh’k'r) but sweetened the Turkish smile of Ozgür, a newfound friend I met in my... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• A Life With Relatives

  

  I know my relatives, at least in my mother’s side of the family. (I grew up barely knowing my father’s side.) I know my uncle and aunt and their spouses who hav... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Silent Love

  

  @rild / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-NDIt is hard not to speak to the one you Love. I did that twice. I did that to choose to allow silence between us, in an attempt... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Tell Me Something About Your Soul

  

  (c) Microsoft imageI remember my interviewer’s face in my first ever job interview 7 years ago. He was looking astig, occasionally puffing his cigarette while... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• In Our Separateness

  

  (c) Microsoft imagesSeparate is a root word that metamorphoses into multiple meanings, yet often reminds most people in the personal level this word’s... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2013 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Is Juan Tamad Really Lazy?

  

  Juan Tamad (c) Anton Diaz / Our Awesome PlanetPicture this: a young man sitting beneath the shade of a guava tree, lying restfully with its native hat covering... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2013 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• After Math

  

  (c) Microsoft imageI remember the face of my math teacher when I was in third grade. Her eyebrows were almost hooked together as she got irritated when any of u... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• Wounding and Healing

  

  (c) Melisback / Photoxpress.comWhen it comes to Love, one theme often emerges in those many stories I have heard from friends and strangers: the struggle to Lov... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS

• The Divine Face

  

  Here in my place, I can see from afar Mount Makiling, the famed mystical mountain of Laguna province, about two hours south of Manila. Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH, RELATIONSHIPS