By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN this day and age, women have lesser tolerance for philandering partners but it doesn’t mean they do not respond or react. They respond by not saying a word, or a tirade of so many words, or throw unidentified flying objects, leave, or wait. I…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “HE appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The…
Artistic Interpretations
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SISTER Mary John Mananzan, a Missionary Benedictine activist nun from Bayambang, Pangasinan, told me that on one of her trips to Tagaytay, she followed a bluebird and it stopped at a property in Mendez, Cavite. It was in this property where the Women and Ecology…
Fairy-bluebird
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I came across a post today complaining that most people on Facebook (FB) refuse to engage in a conversation on Messenger, even when they are “Friends”. I find it curious because I have the impression that most young people find relationships and share intimacies this…
“Friends”
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I was going to meet Alma Cruz Miclat to watch a Special Concert in memory of Kerima Lorena Tariman, resistance fighter and poet, who perished in an encounter with the 79th Infantry Battalion on 20 August 2021. She was branded by the government as a…
“Kaladkarin”
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo HE was, an occasional intruder in her thoughts. Whatever happened to him? She found him, in the dragnet of the web, as always, the community of the found, where the real challenge is anonymity. He looked older than she anticipated, different from what she imagined,…
Whatever happened to him?
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo FALCON had been merciful, it danced past the Philippines and may tango into a super typhoon somewhere else. Together with the Habagat (southwest monsoon), it continued to dump rain, and exacerbated the impact of Egay, the fifth of the predicted 29 named storms to hit…
Waterworld
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I was late, the rains interrupted me, but I made it. I made it to the 80th birthday celebration of a friend, Edicio de la Torre (Ed), the inseparable part of Girlie Villariba. In this event is an offering, a conversation of love, spoken and…
Conversations
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo MORE than we realize, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is woven in our daily life. It is present in all mobile phones, personal computers, in bank transactions and other places where human interaction is present, and where it has replaced the services of humans. In our mobile…