February 2011
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children's library: a single book starts a library
A few days ago, I’ve read a tweet from the Professional Heckler and its says: “my goal this year: set up a community library in our remote barangay in batangas.” I retweeted it, not for the sake of my few followers but for myself, I’d want to remember it when I finally have the time to do this: write about it, and conceptualize my own project based on it. So this is it.
My family in the province...
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Pinoy Tumblr.: Barangay Ayala Alabang requires... →
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In Barangay Ayala Alabang in Muntinlupa City, people will need a prescription to buy a condom.
The Sanggunian Barangay of Ayala Alabang released an ordinance that takes effect on February 24, 2011 that seeks, among others, to penalize the sale and purchase of “anti-conceptional substance or…
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“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where...”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Catharine MacKinnon on Sexuality
Sexuality, in feminist light, is not a discrete sphere of interaction or feeling or sensation or behavior in which preexisting social divisions may or may not be played out. It is a pervasive dimension of social life, one that permeates the whole, a dimension along which gender occurs and through which gender is socially constituted; it is a dimension along which other social divisions, like...
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“The earth is speaking to us, but we can’t hear because of all the racket our...”
– Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl)
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harinawa (bayang barrios)
Kay gara rin ng aking buhay Sa hirap man ako nasanay Mananatili ring makulay ang buhay ko Marami na kong naranasan Ako’y umibig at iniwan Pero di ako nagkulang Sa panalanging ‘to Sa sinag ng araw, ng buhay Maaninag ang pag-asa Sa daloy ng dagat, mamunga Ang pag-ibig at payapa Ihatid sana ng hangin Ang aking panalangin, Harinawa Sa kabila ng tagumpay At taghoy ng mabigo Sa tibay at...
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flower on the crannied wall
flower on the crannied wall,
i pluck you out of the crannies
i hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
little flower — but if I could understand
what you are, root and all, and all in all,
i should know what God and man is
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
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“Only stay quiet, while my mind remembers
The beauty of fire from the beauty of...”
– John Masefiled, “On Growing Old”
