Mediating Golden Girls

Over fifty years since high school, we had developed our own decision-making skills and some. Now, as we prepare for our golden jubilee next year, one can imagine the clash of opinions regarding plans. Can't blame others to remain in the woodwork!

Fight or flight or fright? Laughter is the best mediation.

No Pews

Chanced upon a foreign film in Cinema World, where the churchpeople decided to clear their place of worship of the pews. Instead, they had a concert/dancing venue. This is also done in my neighboring Las Pinas' St. Joseph Parish with its Bamboo Organ Festival every February.

Mixed-use of churches is a sign of greater openness to other forms of worship. So is mediation, of justice.

Luz Change

Loose change is coming - from taxi drivers, Duterte vows. But change has also to be enlightened, not just for the head- or tail of it.

The choice of a Villar scion of real estate holdings, for Public Works and Highways is like dropping a shark into an aquarium. Better to retain non-COI (conflict of interest) Secretary Singson, in that case. So in mediation, should doubts be eliminated.

Robot Monk

A monk thought of a robot to spread their teachings and answer the questions of especially the youth.

That's keeping up with the children, like mediation is, with the times.

Lost in Tension

Had a good heart over breakfast. The commentator over the biblical cum classical music radio station narrated a tense call of an expectant father to his wife's ob-gyne, "Her contractions are getting more frequent, Dr." to which the latter asked, "Is this her first child?" The reply: "This is her husband!"

In mediation, too, we have to know where both sides are coming from.

Quick Thinking

With e-lections, come all the tales of cheating, imagined, paranoid, or not. A Baby Blues comic strip showed an example of logic shortcut. The father said, "I go to work to make money, which we spend on food, which you put on plates, where the kids push it around, and then it gets thrown away. It would be more efficient if I just put my paycheck in the trash." The wife retorted,"And no cooking? I'm listening..."

Mediation, in a non-perverted way, goes over the hurts and pains in a relationship to get to the resolution of the conflict.

Serviciong Totoo

My maternal grandfather was fluent in spoken and written Spanish. Hence, my mother would speak to us with a smattering of the language. Servicio, to us, was the potty, so the GMA tagline is not really very pleasant, especially if you're eating.

Indeed, some news and its reporters can be trashy, too.

Mini-glo

The 12-year old daughter of Duterte with his present partner ominously reminds us of Gloria in the Palace.

Hopefully, her father's brashness hasn't rubbed off too much on her. Monkey see, ...

Shades of Guilt

Psychology calls it the defense mechanism of projection. To protect our ego, we tend to criticize others, usually what we ourselves are guilty of. Guess it's easy to recognize the familiar. So it is with BBMarcos accusing the pious widow Leni of cheating in the elections. 1986 part II!

Be careful of what you accuse of.

Political Scions

The political sons also rise- in social media, just about the same time their parents were conceding to each other.

Let the sharing begin!