Amazing Food

NAT GEO recounted the search for food of the Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror. It reached the point when they turned to tarantulas for sustenance! Now, they are a delicacy.

That's the development of a nation's problem-solving for nutrition.

Waiting

Can't recall now where I heard this observation: "Why are they called waiters? Diners are the ones waiting."

Just like those with pending court cases awaiting decisions.

Wanda No More

Political appointees' season again. So finally, it was revealed that Duterte die-hard Tulfo's sister, Wanda Teo from a Davao agency, is now at the helm of Tourism.

This conflict (of interest) is hard to mediate.

Ending

That's not the barangay- level gambling. Emily's Post (again not the etiquette columnist) of Emily Marcelo had this lyrical advice to a letter-writer: "Closing the chapter on a great love is always sad in any language. That's the reason for the periods in sentences, winters in seasons, deaths in a life. Every good thing ends, somehow or other. As a song goes, 'All good things must end, and autumn leaves must fall. But that's what memories are for- for reliving, for playing back, for reminiscences.' "

And mediation, too when there is need to trace how the once good relationship deteriorated.

Wagas na Wakas

GMA News TV featured a truly heroic man who became blind after an accident, was left by his pretty girlfriend, learned to be a construction worker and found new love in a plump but good-natured woman.

Mediation likewise seeks a creative and tenacious end to conflict.

Solutionaries

As coined and defined by the previous PCOO Assistant Secretary Celso Santiago, this term refer to "students who are molded into citizens who can propose solutions and not just join the noisy mob in social media." How? The Aquino Legacy Videos will be distributed to 2, 000 schools.

Could refer to disputants in mediation, too.

SODA ads

Not of Coke or Sprite, but of the State of the Department/ Agency that were rampant after the elections. Reminds me of one Peace Panelist who in the 2010 turn-over, cried bribery early on the start of her appointment.

Why only now? That could likewise be asked of disputants at the start of mediation.

Smashing Success

In the Genius series of the History channel, an American with a German-sounding name, Oppenheimer is credited for the hydrogen bomb that ended World War II and lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Did he, like Einstein (for the atom bomb ) regret having had destructive destinies, and preferred to have been a fisherman?

Horse-Man ship

This is the story of French rider Pierre Durand and his family-owned horse. Pierre's first tournament failure was blamed on his coach, who was replaced by another more positively reinforcing. The horse was also not spared and got to be sold except for failing its medical check-up. In the end, after being more caring of his horse, Durand won in the Seoul Olympics.

How like human inter-relationships frequently blaming, escaping, and all else except accepting.

Mediating Tastes

Who could be more qualified than Indians? Its Cinema World feature differentiated spicy (tasty) from hot (hurting).

To every tongue, spoken or tasting, there is a preference, often necessitating mediation.