House on Fire

The White one certainly is. Specifically, its men up in arms and tongue against each other.

The Chief is no mediator either, more like the Instigator.

Adult Life Skills

This CinemaWorld feature suggested that adults, like Scouts gather badges too for accomplishing feats.

Could come in handy during  mediation.

The Path to Purpose

In this book, William Damon describes different people  as "the disengaged who has no purpose at all; the dreamer who has a sense of purpose but never acts on it; the dabbler who seems to have purpose, acts on it, but never sticks to one; and the purposeful who discovers purpose, acts on it over a period of time and thus allows the development of commitment and dedication."

The last, a mediator's dream disputant.

Fear Factor

Wasn't exactly a fan of this show before. Gone now? no wonder. Dangerous Drugs Board Chair Dionisio Santiago says, "Fear factor is good only to a certain point. Oplan Tokhang was effective because it sowed fear among drug users, but it should be supported by other programs.

Caritas Manila's Sanlakbay Gabay program has physical/medical, emotional, social/sports, livelihood and paralegal aspects.

Violent Results

"Words we choose can have" such effect, according to the only dissenting voice in the Supreme Court's review on martial law, Associate Justice Marvic Leonen.

Wise words in mediation.

Wading in Justice

Duterte demands the return of the Balingaga bells.

Easier to deal with a friendly force on a doable item than with an unfriendly one on a sea of issues.

Grave Robber

Not a ghoul but God really, Who stole the death of Christ.

For us mortals, it's just grave thief of life.

Minsan isang gamu-gamo

Watching CNNPH"s "Peskador" on Pinoy fishermen on the Western PH Sea, recalled social anthropologist Melba Maggay's Commentary on "the story line of a film in the recent past,
of a firefly that challenged a hawk."

We await what Duterte will say today on the year-old ruling of the Hague's Permanent Court
of Arbitration awarding that Sea to PH. Let us see.  

From Experience

An Indian Think Tank based in New Delhi is warning the Philippines against non-viable loans from China. Ironic, since the bombays on motorcycles roam Manila streets collecting daily interest from vendors.  At least now, they are concerned that PH's sovereignty may suffer the same fate as  Laos and Sri Lanka, after huge disastrous lending from China went south.

Like in mediation, it is best not to typecast the outcaste.

   

No Complaining

This translated reminder from author/psychologist Salvo Noe hangs on Pope Francis' door:

"Violators are under the influence of I'm a victim syndrome with a resulting decrease in sense of humor and in the capacity to solve problems.

 Punishment will be doubled if the violation is committed in the presence of children.

In order to become the best "You," you must concentrate on your potential and not on your own limitations.

Therefore: Stop complaining and get on making your life better."

A Papal message to disputants.

The Vow

Hooked on this movie after seeing the Chicago River boat. A Lake Forest college girl asked her mother why she didn't leave her father after he had an affair with her classmate. The mother's reply: I stayed for all the things he's done right; I didn't leave for the one wrong he did.

Good message for disputing couples.

From the Ashes

NAT GEO's feature on coal-mining in the US was disheartening for them but consoling for us in the Third World experiencing the same thing. Aside from Presidents seemingly oblivious to this threat.

Like noise, air and water pollution are boundless.

Haggling

Martial law in Mindanao to be in effect till the end of the year. Hopefully 2017. What a relief not for 5 years as the Speaker psych-broadcasted, and not to include Visayas and Luzon!

Compromise comes with a promise they must fulfill!

Real Justice

Conchita Razon's "My Chair Rocks," shared the US Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.'s "most unconventional speech at his son's middle school graduation.":

"From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice.

I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty.

Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don't take friends for granted.

I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time, so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.

And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure., a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship.

I hope you will be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion."

Amen!

Pa-loose talk na naman

Again, it is said Supt. Marcos and cohorts "were not really reinstated but only reverted to duty." Nitpicking time once more. Another case is the reason given to prolong martial law is that there are still 60 rebels to capture. How did they know the number if not the names, which would have led to their end.

Catch fishy characters by the mouth.

French Twist

It is always in fashion in their films. A recent one had an assassin ending up saving a suicidal hotel guest and a woman giving birth.

Mediation also turns antagonists into protagonists.

Mediating Migrants

"Welcome to Norway" was a CinemaWorld feature on what they call "darkies" or migrants. A family decided to offer their Noro Hotell to the government. Fifty persons came in to chaos. One of them devised a twin rooming arrangement for Shiite/Sunni Muslims, Coptic/Roman Catholics, etc. complete with a buffer zone group!

Ingenuous self-mediation.

Gammy Mediation

Like "Pretty Woman" and "Three Weddings and a Funeral," "The Proposal" one can watch again and again. Here, a grandmother had to feign a heart attack to get her son and her grandson to agree on family matters.

Otherwise, there is mediation.

Mystic Magic

It says, "Listen to the wind, it talks.
               Listen to the silence, it speaks.
               Listen to your heart, it knows."

Mediation has these 3 sometimes.

Ba2

PNP Chief seems to have a forked tongue. Talking before the SAF men assigned in Bilibid accused of not stopping the illegal trade there, he blamed the syndicate for spreading the rumor. Then, he stated they are not to point fingers at anyone and just do their duty.

Beware of fast talk in mediation.

Taxing again

Like the SSS additional senior pension passed to current members, the new tax package  zeroing in on fuel will require cash incentives for drivers of public utility vehicles too aside from the families of the disadvantaged.

Aside from encouraging dependence, this is roundabout instead of direct intervention.

Matsushita Mediation

Looking for an earlier late night news, chanced upon ABC5's "Tulong Ko, Pasa Mo." The episode featured the story of Panasonic. After starting small on an inventive product, a bicycle lamp, Mr. Matsushita encountered a slump in business. He  refused to retrench or decrease employee pay, having considered his endeavor a sacred task after visiting a temple. Soliciting employee loyalty, he was able to convince them to sell their pending inventory as part of their job.

Playful Bunny

In this world, seniors are getting discounted respect, too. One of them had some relief, however after former bunny turned voyeur Dani Mathers "snapped  a photo of a naked 71-year old in a gym locker room," according to  AP.  Ms. Mather's was ordered "to spend 30 days cleaning up graffiti on Los Angeles streets as punishment."

Some Mathers most.

Personalan sa Trabaho

DU30's logo on shirt, Freddie Aguilar's song announcing his entrance, Bato mascot, now Danny Lim of MMDA follows suit. He castigates the bus driver and conductor for harming "his" men. He is then their enemy.

Things have been becoming up close and personal with this administration of parochial mentality.

Mediation from Above

From Facebook: God will never leave you empty. He will replace everything you lost. If He asks you to put something down, it's because He wants you to pick up something greater.

Believe me, this works!

Friends

WOMEN WORKING says:

Good friends care for each other.
Close friends understand each other.
True friends stay forever, beyond words, distances, and time.

With friends like these, who needs mediation?

Literal

That is how a Beauty and Health Shop took its location across the 6th Station of the Cross in the Holy Land, according to Inquirer's Lito Zulueta.  It marks the place where Veronica wiped the bloodied Face of Jesus Christ on the way to Calvary.

No mediating commercial license.

CHRiminal

That is how CHR Chair Gascon says the Commission of Human Rights is referred to.

Mediation is just as "guilty," in its protection of the rights of all.

Company

The kind we keep reveals us to the world around us. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been announcing that he will "clobber"  any group out to destroy their traditional of pluralism and moderate Islam, reports Reuter. Not too moderate in speaking, just like his friend and co-former mayor Duterte.

A mediator has to deal with disputants on their individual capacity, though.

Unholy Trinity

More than a love triangle, it is true in "Me, Myself and I," according to Catholic Exchange's Marcellino D'Ambrosio. He noted that it was heralded by the publication of "Self" magazine decades ago.

This is the usual reason for mediation.

A Phobia

That's for Animal. Animal Planet featured fear of spiders, roaches and even butterflies! A psychologist gave the three subjects a gradual introduction of plastic versions, posters in their room, taking care and finally relaxed contact with them.

Mediation also sees the various stages of social interaction after a conflict.