The Cool Kids

Latest successor of the sitcoms Golden Girls and Better Late Than Never, their tagline reads: They're growing old, not growing up.

Meet them in mediation, too.

Royal Name

Prince Harry and Meghan mediated on their first-born's name. First name Archie is not from the cartoon character but Princess Di's ancestor Archibald. Harrison is not from Beatle George but to mean Harry's son. Mountbatten is for Prince Philip's family, as Windsor is Queen Elizabeth's.

Wounded Healers

Fr. Tito Caluag had a truly touching reflection in last Sunday Inquirer's column: "It is the experience of the healing grace of God in our life- that wounded broken part of our life- that inspires us for a lifetime to share this grace with others.

A veteran of strife could be an insightful mediator.

Triple V

It stands for partners Vicvic, Valentin and Violeta. Former employees of the  late Vicvic recall his teaching them to be "maagap." This could be loosely translated to being proactive.

For those who didn't "nip problems in the bud," there is mediation.

Plurality

The single-mindedness of fanatical Dutertards is amazing. In the caco-phoney, Randy David says that the majority who did not vote for him plus the families of all his victims living and dead could give another upset to this thug.

Failure of Unclogging

Not the drain but the court dockets. Former CJ Panganiban in his Sunday Inquirer column credits Senior Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio for setting and following a plan of deciding 1000 cases per year.

Mediation helps by reducing the number of cases being brought to pretrial at the lowest court level.

One's Honor to Avoid Strife

Can't recall now where this meaningful phrase was read.

Mediators help settle them.

The Truth

Senator de Lima is a voice crying in Crame's Custodial Center. Why is the government in hot pursuit of Bikoy cohorts? Nothing irks it more than the truth. VP Leni proposes treating them as whistleblowers instead. Ex- Solgen Pilo Hilbay clarifies that sedition is against the government not a family and its f(r)iends.

The Opposition might still win, especially since election day falls on the feastday of Our Lady of Fatima. EDSA to the nth Power!

The Gift of Giving

Aside from material things, a Compromise Agreement gives peace of mind to disputants. Such is the reward of mediators as well. As Our Daily Bread says, "whoever refreshes others will be refreshed."

Psalms for the West Philippine Sea

Ma. Ceres Doyo's Human Face column sought inspiration from the Bible's Old Testament on our predicament with Chinese intrusion. She "conjures up a Via Dolorosa dotting the howling West Philippine Sea, and on a craggy hill a lighthouse ablaze against the darkening sky."

Mediation is like that lighthouse, as China does not recognize the unilateral arbitration.