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Roel’s Bookshop and the Sealed Letter
One by one, she unpacked the books from the box.
It was not more than an hour ago that I arrived at the bookshop. Though it took around two hours of travel from Las Piñas, it is always worth the price I pay—for the...
Children and incarceration: A question of sanity
Does the Filipino child deserve incarceration?
The House committee on justice has recently approved a bill that would lower the age of criminal liability from 15 to nine. RA 10630 is supposed to amend the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 (RA 9344)....
A Tarot of Philippine history (Part 2)
The Tarot de Marseilles, the oldest deck in 15th century Italy, slipped into the Philippines in the 18th century, most likely in gamblers’ hands. It didn’t take long to use it for divination.
True to its ancient babaylan culture, divination in the Philippines is...
The Tarot: A world heritage
PART I
In Cartas Philippinensis, the first Philippine Tarot cards by historian and lawyer Saul Hofileña Jr., painted by Guy Custodio, we have a newborn with a long, illustrious world heritage.
Tracing its genealogy has been quite an adventure. Thanks to the Internet filling in...
Class suspension, heroes, and Amari
Our last week’s visit here in Rizal Park helped prevent my incipient frustration with the late class suspension today, because it meant that I would have time to go back to the Trece Mártires de Bagumbayan marker that bears another masonic inscription on...
Why bullying is not child’s play
Bullying is about aggression. Fear in the child victim and the indifference of adult society fuel it. People’s refusal to intervene or report the incidents, thinking they’re only child’s play, makes it an extremely difficult problem to solve.
Domination, too. There has to be...
