Notice how we tend to lose our focus on any given moment. The impulse to check on our phones while talking to a friend or family member, or while eating or even when working. The tendency to scroll through the status update on social media. The habit of cutting off people in mid-sentence to interject our point. We have a hard time being fully present. At one time in our … [Read more...] about Being in the Moment
Radzini Oledan
Beyond grief
It was a bittersweet parting for the year. In the aftermath of typhoon Vinta, an estimated 57,000 evacuees in Mindanao, including 18,500 families in the 25 barangays of Davao City were displaced. It left 123 dead and 160 missing in Visayas and Mindanao. Less than 24 hours and while the local government of Davao, including volunteers from the community was responding to … [Read more...] about Beyond grief
Women Represent
I was buying from a neighborhood store when Davina Bennett, Jamaica’s representative to the 2017 Miss Universe Pageant caught my attention. “Sexual abuse is a form abuse and no form of abuse should be tolerated whether in workplace or in society,” she said. As everyone seemed to be glued on their sit to watch the pageant unfold, I caught myself in between train of … [Read more...] about Women Represent
