How Long

King David asked this of God in Psalm 13.

Also the question of most litigants.

Attention

Now working from home, resting tired eyes after reading conversations among colleagues on my mobile phone, chance upon birds seeking shade by the window.

Some good coming out of all this.

Affiliates

Our group formed by the nuns of our alma mater was given a short biography of the congregation's foundress, Mother Louise de Meester.

Before going to Tagudin, she first sailed to India. When they got into a stormy night, her sister companion cried out, "We are sinking!" Mother Louise replied, "What about that? Say an Act of Contrition and go to sleep."

Vigilant-e

DU30's apo not the mountain, was cited by townmates for skipping the line in a grocery for some party goodies.

Now that's people power!

3.28

More than the date tomorrow, it is the millions of Americans who filed for unemployment recently due to COVID-19.

How one conflict impacts others.

Mortality

In these days of COVID-19, Christchurch gunman pleads guilty, to the relief of the families of his victims. Must be intimations of his mortality.

The First Wives Club ll

One friend was in denial of her marital problems, enabled by her mother. The latter stated, "You have a husband, a daughter; who needs self-esteem?"

The First Wives Club

That's where a lot of women become members. In this movie, four college friends get together after they lost another friend who made her husband rich who now was being made happy by a younger whoaman.

Woes of Women

Maria von Trapp refused to answer to the whistle call of the Captain father of her wards.

Until now, women refuse to respond to catcalls  which originally meant "a loud or raucous cry made to express disapproval as at a sports event."

Not as bad as having their feet bound or body mutilated!

Women

Another reason to celebrate our month! PH ranks no.1 in Gender Equality in Asia, and 13 globally!!!

Woemen

Before our month ends, good to chance upon Self-Made series on Netflix. It dealt with women on double whammy of being black in addition. And even among them, there were mullatas who looked down on them!

Trump

HISTORY featured his way around adversity.  He gets into denial. He didn't like the B word, bankruptcy, even though he was in it up to billions!

Commission

My son is thinking of getting into tilapia fish-raising. Advised to give commission to fishpond caretakers every harvest. That way, they don't have to think of committing ways to earn on the side.

Secret

"Can you keep one?"
"I'm good till I meet another person."

Repartee between Maxwell and butler Niles (The Nanny)

Viral

Not only corona but a Paris Museum sent its huge painting collection on cyberspace for all lockdown persons to visit.

Creative as a Compromise Agreement. Win2

To Lock or not to Lock

A lockdown by any name stinks just the same perhaps because not much thinking was involved, just some tinkering on what is done abroad. So Pinoy!

Social Distancing

One of its earliest self-imposed cases is in today's Gospel reading on the Samaritan woman drawing water from the well at noon.

Not for physical but rather mental health.

Wilmington Lies

CNN's Amanpour featured counter history in North Carolina during 1890's White Supremacy Law. As "victors write history," they published black men's record of raping white women.  Most of these cases were consensual, it is said, while white men raped black women with impunity.

The Long View

Andrew Matthews' Laws of Life include "Enjoying your work." P.C. Taylor loves his work of removing garbage in tunnels under the subway. "Homeless people live down there in those tunnels. And I'm helping to give them a better home. And while I'm helping the homeless, I'm putting my two daughters through college!"

Like tedious mediation at times

Access 360o

NATGEO features  Heritage Sites in aerial archaeology perspective.

What mediators would want disputants to have.

Reason for the Season

Exit polls in various Democratic Party's state primaries cite voters' anger at Trump, and choice based more on who could defeat him than agreement with candidate's policies.

We hear and empathize with them.

Psalm 61

Our Daily Bread reflection today is on God's listening ears and our hope in Him- the eternal Mediator.

Your Mind is a Magnet

It is a Law of Life in Andrew Matthews' "Happiness NOW."

Mediation's mantra is Compromise.

Insanity

Someone defines it as doing the same thing all over again and expecting different results.

Till the litigious discover mediation.

In Tolerance

US trusts, after God. Proof was the latest Democratic national primary, where contenders included an immigrant's granddaughter turned Judge, a gay mayor, and a woman Senator. But it seems their country is not ready for any one of them.

Sound of Music

This classic film starts on the hills and ends on them too.

Like disputants having in them the resolution to their conflict.

Ego vs Confidence

Ego, they say needs recognition and reward. Confidence banks on own skills and abilities, much like disputants in mediation.

When God Fills Us

Our Daily Bread's reflection today focuses on times of emptiness, loneliness and adjustment.

There are such times too when.we are in conflict with another and someone comforts us with "God will take care of him or her."

Treating Treaties

The Senate has finally asked the Supreme Court for its role regarding treaties after DU30 unilaterally cut short the Visiting Forces Agreement with the US after it cancelled the visa of Senator Bato.

Ray Donovan

Heavily recommended in Netflix' "Grace and Frankie," took in some of its episodes.  In one, the man asked if shamans can really heal. The woman says, "you heal yourself."

P. S. MASH's Hawkeye/Alan Alda also stars here!

Apology

ABS-CBN apologized and DU30 accepted.

Another case is up. His campaign expenses are now being looked into as obviously over the limit.