Dear ANI graduate,

I write this letter to you as my parting gift, hoping that somehow, I can help you understand your ANI experience. I know for a fact that you have gone through a lot, and have accomplished so much. Now, my task is to help you integrate and make sense of everything that you have experienced.
"Life is difficult," was the first and ( Read more... )

Copy Right by Geoffrey Miles L. Mercado, 2010 ( Read more... )

On one seemingly uneventful night in my home province, I happened to come across the beach front, accompanied by a blood-peer. As we sat down on plastic chairs oriented to the sea, we witnessed a site unfamiliar to the inhabitants of the metropolitan, a clear starry night. It was so clear, in fact, that it rendered my silent. The pleasant dark blue ( Read more... )

"Let's say you're walking by a pond and there's a drowning baby. If you said , 'I've just paid [P7,000] for these shoes and the water would ruin them, so I won't save the baby,' you'd be an awful, horrible person. But there are millions of children around the [country] in the same situation, where just a little money for medicine or food could ( Read more... )

This morning was one of the few moments when I actually listened attentively to the homily of the priest. Today’s gospel was about the parable of the prodigal son-one of my most beloved biblical stories. It is quite obvious that the character of the prodigal son, who at first was proud and later endowed with the wisdom of humility, is ( Read more... )