By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IMAGINATION, the capacity to create images or concepts that become palpable even in their absence, is the ally of those who wait incessantly for the situations they cherish. It is an indispensable friend, faithful to a fault, in the passage of time, where forgetting becomes…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo A flood of light illuminates the garden. It is not the full moon as yet, but the intermediate Moon phase between the half moon and the full moon. The moonlight brushes through my skin gently, opening its pores. It teases the buds to open as…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON Monday, we troop to the polling places to vote for many reasons. Others vote to move this country forward. Others vote to move themselves to positions of power. Others just respond to monetary stimuli. The bougainvillea the bougainvillea watches the road that…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo PAIN is a dance in the bottomless pit of desire. There, in the abyss, the darkness becomes the music. It is where ghosts are roused from their sleep, take your hand to the dance floor and whirl your body in the air, unmindful of danger,…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON a warm, busy morning after assisting the hired workers to clean in the garden of my sister Emma and the adjacent lot which we adopted to clean, green and beautify at Filinvest, I received a video of a uniquely-conceived campaign material incorporating Urduja, Pangasinan’s…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I am fascinated with shooting stars, tiny particles of dust from space that burn up above Earth’s surface as they dive down at an incredible velocity in the sky, glowing as they pass and then as quickly, gone. I remember waiting at the school…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THERE are many kinds of war that women fight. There are silent wars that seek liberation from patriarchy, gut wars that has something to do with the eradication of poverty and hunger and so many others that impact on human lives in general, particularly women’s…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SOME time in January 2022, former Syrian intelligence officer “Anwar Raslan, 58, was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people” and the torture of at least 4,000 prisoners at the Al-Khatib detention centre in Damascus, also known as “Branch 251”, in 2011 and…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo FOUND an article entitled, “US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev” written by Ian Traynor of the Guardian dated Fri 26 Nov 2004. It summarizes thus: “But while the gains of the orange-bedecked “chestnut revolution” are Ukraine’s, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated…
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