By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “Questions of a Woman’s Life” was composed on the 24th of March, 2017. The other poem, “Blind” may have been composed in the same year. There are still no answers but she’s no longer blind. half a life of what she lived others live today…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN the Bible, dreams are regarded as a form of direct spiritual communication, between God and man, or between an angel, upon instructions from God, and a human being. In Matthew 1:18-25, an angel appears to Joseph in his dream, telling him not to fear…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo MY sister Emma and her children moved to Filinvest II in 01 May 2017 with an eight-year contract of lease ending 31 April 2025. I moved in sometime later, shuttling from the house I occupied in Mapagkawanggawa, Teachers Village where I maintained a small garden…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I wrote “Yellow Light” to start the Poetree Train, a chain of poems about trees to celebrate the World Poetry Day nine years ago, 01 March 2016 published in “Kiew: An Anthology of Tree Poems”, a collection of 148 tree poems and ten translations into…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo A tribute to the sand, who came, and stayed inside of me, theoretically, erratically. Happening I am not, tonight, going to talk not because I have nothing to say, (because there’s much I’m going to say) but because I can’t speak about pain, the kind…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON 12 May 2025, we are going to elect those who will govern our country, the ones we will be calling, “Honorable”, whether they deserve it or not. Most of those we elected could not even pass a regular job interview, but had been entrusted…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) or doulourex typically happens when “a blood vessel puts pressure on the trigeminal nerve near the brainstem”. This nerve provides sensation to the head and face. According to neurologists, the condition isn’t life-threatening, but it can be life-altering. It is typically chronic (long-term) but…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo NOT all ailments can be cured by the latest medicines. Some medicines may impact on vital organs causing them to fail, aggravating the original condition they are prescribed to cure. Science is responsible for a lot of new pharmacological remedies, but its limitations are real….
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo EVERY time a classmate travels to the Philippines, we make sure to get together as much as possible. Since three of them were coming in the first quarter of 2025 at different months, we deferred the event three times to wait for another one whom…
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