Pope
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The world mourns for a beacon that was Mendela. It rains in the stadium and inside the heart. Racism was an ingrained system up to the Civil War, fought in World War, struggled in the 60’s and onto the 90’s in Apartheid. We simply don’t like color folks, first in speech, than in hush-hush, now only…
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I saw on the news that the new Pope inspires a group of high school students to reenact “feet washing“. Now, that’s refreshing (no punt intended!) to find news (besides kids shooting other kids, bullying them, DUI, Springfield groper etc…) with some positive twists. I have read about the Jesuits, Alexandre de Rhodes in particular, who worked from a…
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Having lived in coastal cities for quite some time, I forgot what’s like to wait for Spring. We need Winter as a set up for Spring. Winter-Spring contrast is more striking than that of Summer-Fall. We also anticipated Spring more than Fall (some even wish for endless summers). Vietnamese literature and lyrics (Gold music) nevertheless, serenade Fall and…
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Tonight we turn the clock forward. Day light saving time. At least, for once, we can advance time, unlike other occasions when waiting for a test result might seem like an eternity. From Ulysses we found this timeless advice: “Hold on to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past”. It matters that we exist and…
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We will have said that word, Hello, for the millionth time before quietly slipping into the night. When the telephone was first used, Alexander Graham Bell suggested “What is asked?” for greetings. Finally, we settled for Hello. It acknowledges the other, and ourselves. Greetings as bridges, not barriers. And not just word. We look the…
Thang Nguyen 555 