Mother Angelica

She said she couldn't have been a nurse because she would have killed the doctor if he were not compassionate.

Nun sense

Southern Wisdom

HITS Movies' Steel Magnolias had this quote from the father of the bride: An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure.

Led to a lot of mediation too.

Dying Wish

"Australian ambulance grants dying patient's last wish to go to the beach on her way to the hospital. Inspired, Queensland dedicated a decommissioned ambulance to granting dying wishes of terminally ill patients such as visiting their pets, their children, their grandchildren or visiting an art gallery or museum."-AFP

Corporal work of mercy to the max!

Bookend Saints

In an EWTN discussion on the mother of the apostles James and John's request to Jesus that they sit on his right and left, it was ironically fulfilled by James being the first to be martyred and John the last to die.

Be careful what you wish for.

Royal Signals

Queen Elizabeth does not wink to the press around the visiting Trump like Camilla. Her ways to indicate wishing to end the conversation are shifting her handbag to the other arm, putting it on top of the table or twisting her wedding band.

Discretion prevents mediation.

Fergie's 3 Cs

Sarah Ferguson says she is not getting back together with her ex Prince Andrew.
But they are bigger friends now with communication, com-promise and  com-passion. Dashes ours.

Divorce is a great way to renew a friendship.

Mediating Media

When asked to comment on Princess Diana's popularity, Queen Elizabeth remarked, "You were not around when Margaret and I had husbands talent-scouted for us."

Tinge of green?

Fringe Benefit

This makes you cringe. In a discussion over Catholic cable network EWTN on its film UNPLANNED, a worker in a Planned Parenthood center revealed that they could avail of free abortion upon need.

Community

Our Daily Bread reflection defines it as "the place where the person you least want to live with always lives." Henri Nouwen

Enter mediation.

Divine Mediator & Equalizer

"For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, "Do not fear; I will help you." Isaiah 41:13

Every victim's prayer

Informed Racist

He is a better racist, says a Pakistani comic on Saturday Night Live. He reasons that the Muslim ban on women drivers couldn't have come from the Koran of ages ago.

Mediation checks on assertions.

Reinventing self

In "A League of Their Own," a women's baseball team members were milkmaids, an illiterate, a plain-looker with a sultry singing voice, etc. coached by a recovering alcoholic.

Mediation is also about second chances.

Man or Mouse

In "Little House on the Prairie," Dr. Baker was mocked by the townspeople for taking care of a wolf and her offspring. Are you a doctor or a vet, they asked. Sometimes, my patients confuse me, was his quick reply.

Psalm 93

"Your statutes stand firm..."

Mediation sees to that.

Price of Mediation

HITS Movies' feature Oliver saw this woman try to turn him over to his family and suffer death in the run.

Mediation is a safer way to resolve conflict.

Mini Me

Our Daily Bread reflects on the joy children bring to parents they imitate.

Such huge responsibility too!

Just a Face

In "Family Ties," an aunt consoles a niece always distracted in her studies by boys, "don't worry, soon they will be taken over by men."

Mediation to be effective addresses the problem, not its symptom.

Pro Action

Princess Diana was a real pro at countering media harassment. She wore the same Fly Atlantic sweatshirt daily to the gym so the press couldn't get a credibly new shot of her, at least for that activity.

Before that Paris accident, she was fairly successful fending for herself.

Houses for Hiroshima

Those are what American pacifist Schoe built after the devastation of World War II, as featured in an NHK docu.

Unilateral successful mediation!

Empty Chair

Our Daily Bread broaches the idea of praying as if God were seated on a chair before us. It is likewise a practice in psychology to resolve a past conflict by addressing in the same way a dead or absent person who has hurt us.

For disputants in the flesh, there is mediation.

Space

Sometimes that's all disputants need first before going to the mediation table.

The Devil's Footprint

"It's a foot-shaped impression in the granite on a hill beside a church in Ipswich, Massachusetts... when the evangelist George Whitefield preached so powerfully that the devil leaped from the church steeple, landing on the rock on his way out of town." (Our Daily Bread)

Realistically, he leaves so much conflict along the way.

Now That's Funny

Not really, as one episode showed various cats ruling the roost over dog housemates.

Mediators try to even the odds between unequal disputants.

A Joyful Heart

Our Daily Bread's advice deters conflict:

1. When we are happy for others

2. When we don't have time to inflict harm on others and

3. When we wish joy for others too.

Conflictrigger

Fights could arise when one questions another's action judgmentally. In a comedy skit, a neighbor asked why the other was hanging her washed clothes out in the rain. Her answer: she hadn't rinsed them yet!

Law of the Jungle

This show's South Korean actress faces a 5-year jail term in Thailand for harvesting its giant clams for an episode.

Meantime, China does the same to us scot-free.

It Happens

This was from Forrest Gump we read, editing out the "sh."

IBato sa Bagong Senador!

Going First

Our Daily Bread's reflection at a glance looked like Going Fist, as it often happens.

For that, mediation referees.

Mediating Marriage

After 8pm Holy Mass over EWTN, I go to the "Little House on the Prairie." Last night, Charles Ingalls' friend escapes home to gamble in town. Brought back by Charles after getting into a brawl, he begs his wife for forgiveness and asks her, "Why don't women marry the men they really want so they don't need to change them anymore?"

Mediation offers the change.

Help

Instead of donating to a T'boli constituent, Marga Nograles asked her to make beadwork on her jackets. This has led to Kaayo Modern Mindanao enterprise.

Mediators likewise use on disputants' resources toward the settlement of their conflict.

Special Treatment

Children with Down's Syndrome are now serving at Shakey's pizza parlors.

Thumbs up!

When Women Quarrel

Oh, for those really good old days, when an angel interceded between Sarah and Hagar in the Old Testament.

Mediators try to fit this heavenly role.

SONA

Activists now equate this to State of No Achievements.

Clarify terms in mediation.

Mediating Space

Visiting our family home, passed by the Sony Service Center now confined to its second floor. A fast food store is at ground.

Compromise in mediation is like this. Win-win!