Roundedness
We do not know who and where the idea of collecting round fruits for luck in every new year emanated. The practice of collecting such round fruits, in some places thirteen kinds while in...
Organic farming needed by Leyte farmers
Prior to the Yolanda calamity, a big percentage of Region 8 farmers hardly practiced organic farming. Our farmers seem not to have accepted what science and technology could do to their farming activities, e.g....
Resurrection (easter sunday)
As we mark today the triumph of Jesus Christ over the forces of evil and sin, let us not forget the teachings he imparted to all of mankind. The resurrection is the climax of...
Just focus on doing a lot of good
IN the gospel, there is a part where Christ drove out the demons from a possessed man but was accused by some leading Jews of driving out demons by the prince of demons, an...
Grateful heart
From the fullness of one’s heart the mouth speaks, says a proverb in the Holy Bible, a precept repeatedly enunciated in the pulpit by homilists and repeatedly heard in retreats and recollections. This is...
More of those toys
In my last column, I gave you samples of those indigenous toys that our children loved to play with before the advent of gadgets. Let me give you more, hoping to have these included...