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Being Filipino Enough

A couple of years ago, something happened that threw me off.  No, it wasn’t the global pandemic — though COVID did affect me and my

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Aquarium Age: May 1-7, 2022

The intensity of daily life is simply overwhelming, making it increasingly hard to find shelter from the storm—because there are simply too many storms occurring at once to make any shelter last long enough to fully catch our breath and replenish depleted reserves. A friend described our situation as a “still life of an explosion.” Each day feels as if we’re caught in a new Big Bang event, giving birth to a brave new world, except nothing is moving and the suspension in space is mind-bending.

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Aquarium Age: April 2022

Emotional waters run deep this month—there’s no bottom to the intensity of feelings, yours or others’, so it’s wise to think before you leap, speak,

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Aquarium Age: March 2022

March plays out on a split screen, but the dual reality I’m talking about isn’t referring to the proverb about the month’s weather—March comes in

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A Conversation with Poet and Philosopher Mark Nepo

“What is our personal practice of return? How do we come back to what is central, to what is real, to what is sacred, when the ups and downs of life knock us away from it? We all have to have a toolbox that we personalize to help us come back to what matters.”
— Mark Nepo

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Coming to Grips with Winter

Most folks have a love/hate relationship with winter here in the valley. For me it has been hate/hate/hate/strongly dislike/disdain/tolerate/resign to; trending towards acceptance. It has

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