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(First Interview of a Four-Part Series)     by Genevieve Balance-Kupang Ramadan Mubarak to all our Muslim siblings! Greetings of a blessed observance of the holy month of Ramadan. I am one with you as you tender intense prayer, do fasting and charitable works, carry out your recitation of the… »

Fort Ilocandia, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Photo by Erlie Lopez.   POEM       by Erlie Lopez i love dusks when the amber of the sky sends a glow to the heart and the breeze whiffs a kiss to the skin. for then, old songs play in the mind wafting… »

SPIRITUALITY         by Genevieve Balance-Kupang From the Byakko Shinko Kai (BSK) perspective, written mandalas of bright words and gratitude to nature are a path to inner peace and world peace. The mandala is a circle with a center around which bright, positive, important, and meaningful words are… »

NARRATIVE         by Trudi Richards When my brother and sisters and I were little and we got too rowdy, our mother used to suddenly say, “let’s listen to the quiet!” Then we would all hunker down and listen, curious, puzzled, for what cannot be heard. Since then,… »

Interview       by Perfecto Caparas Professor Fran Watson, Director of Wrongful Conviction Clinic, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Pressenza interviews Professor Fran Watson, a multi-awarded Clinical Professor of Law of Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She founded and leads its Wrongful Conviction… »

POEM         by Cathy D. Guillermo The choice is made, the journey long; a new road waits for me alone.   The book is closed, another opens… Hand of Fate scribbles first words on an empty page   Again, I am born, never torn, never worn…. first… »

SPIRITUALITY         by Genevieve Balance-Kupang Mandala is a Sankrit word that means “sacred or magic circle.” Babies as young as seven days old prefer seeing this primal shape known to man more than any other shape. In Asia, among Buddhists and Hindus, mandalas are circles symbolically designed… »

The nonviolence fight with a strong hope, but they need our support By Claus Kiaer More than 20 years ago I was attempting traveling to Myanmar for the first time. For 8 years I tried to get a visa until I succeeded in 2009. My first… »

INTERVIEW         by Jhon Sanchez Even though I met Luca two or three years ago, it seems that it has been for a longer time. My friend Justin Sight, the magician, kept talking about Luca’s spiritual search and good sense of humor. Luca, a doctor himself, decided… »

FEATURE       Writeup by Erlie Lopez/Photography by Orlando V Sionosa Jr. The Holy Week ending today in the whole Christendom speaks volumes on Filipinos. Until the surge in Covid-19 cases in the country necessitated strict restrictions on mass gatherings, it steeps most of the country in public piety… »