The guilty and the innocent By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   WE are all innocent in the beginning of time, no matter what religion says about original sin. Because innocence is a condition of not knowing, and we can only be guilty of an act when we know the difference of…

Transition and Remembrance By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   ANISHA Guro, a good friend and soul sister, is having separation blues with a bench at the University of Melbourne. She is starting to miss this particular bench, its peculiarity, six months before she is going to leave, having sat there in…

Presents By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   THERE are presents and presents. Don’t get me wrong, I love all the gifts, including the books, the flowers, the cakes, the coffee beans, the sketches of my face, the dinners, the lunches, before, during and after. I appreciated all of them, especially the…

Betrayal and Gratitude By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   YEARS ago, I have trusted a lot of people I considered friends. They didn’t have to earn my trust, I just gave it to them, without conditions. Some fail this trust along the way, but I gave this trust over and over,…

Freedom to kill By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   IT is easy for some to gloat over the killing of suspected drug addicts. I, too, want the drug problem to end, with the same optimism I have for the US, who until now have 1% success since US President Nixon launched…

Dancing for rain By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo        

Bagong Li: Recycling the new society By Virginia J. Pasalo    

The reality of dreams By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo   I believe in the presence of energies among us, communicating beyond physical existence. In a dream for example, at a point when one is in between the real and the imagined, we experience the touch, have conversation and feel the physicality…

Loneliness and fidelity By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo    

Happy Migrant Workers Day! By Virginia J. Pasalo