Author: Jaime Laya
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Holy but Hot (A)
After its 1991 Sinulog festival, the town woke up to discover their patron saint and other valuables missing including images of San Roque and San Isidro. There were reports that four suspects had boarded a boat bound for Cebu but the trail went cold and neither suspects nor missing items were found.
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Time, tide, and the written word
The AHC is an irreplaceable treasure held in trust by the American Association of the Philippines, Inc. It is an important and heavy responsibility deserving of continued care and protection.
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‘The good is oft interred with their bones’
Marcos was in fact President at a time of international instability. There was unrest in the Middle East (Yom Kippur War, 1973) and two international oil crises (1973 and 1979) when oil production was cut and crude price.
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‘Lifting Her Leafy Arms to Pray’
Ronald Achacoso says the 5,000-square-meter site already has more than 500 plant species of which 200 are trees, including rarities such as our native oak that ordinarily grows at altitudes of 500+ meters.
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August Is the Cruelest Month
Faith tells us that death is a transition, but then T.S. Eliot reminds us, “Your shadow at morning standing behind you. Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you: I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
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A Texan in Casiguran
Before dawn, the 22-year-old Texan Rogers Raymond Pope jumped over his traveling companions—eight cows and a carabao—and hopped on the banca that brought him to shore to start a two-year stay in Sorsogon as supervising teacher covering Casiguran, Sorsogon, Bacon, Castilla, and Juban.
