Year: 2024
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“We all breathe the same dirty air everywhere.” That’s how Mr. Rene Pineda, Jr., President of the Partnership for Clean Air, began his speech during the Stakeholder’s Forum on Air Quality Monitoring. And the call for improving the air quality also includes other sectors such as energy, following the goal of reducing GHG emissions. What became a…
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There are things we need to let go of, even the ones we once held dear, especially when they don’t give life anymore. It’s time to prune the weeds.
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It was the year 1999, and I don’t understand much of anything that’s been going abuzz, but what I understand as a five-year-old is that the turn of the century could mean the end of the world as we know it. It’s all over the news. And I’ve seen glimpses of the panic over the…
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Dear reader from the future, Have you heard about the millenium bug? I’ve just watched a documentary, “Time Bomb Y2K,” and it showed me the extent of the panic that happened before the turn of the century. All I can remember as a five-year-old was that there seemed to be a problem with the turn of…
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Oh, how loud is the voice inside my head that I forgot how my audible voice is rough from a dry cough? I only realized it when I tried answering a phone call, and my voice failed to go out of my throat. Ah, yes, let me know if you can’t understand me. I talk…
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Revisiting some short poems I wrote eight years ago makes me think about how much I changed. Some parts of me remained, but some I’ve learned to let go or perhaps suppress because they are not needed anymore. Yet, those same parts have helped me become who I am today and write the things I…
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In the middle of a task, half of my mind shifts away by asking, “What’s good to eat?” while trying to escape the other half, which tries to focus and be in the flow. That was last year. And a year before that, and before that, too. Okay, I might be in an unhealthy cycle, and you…
jessa 