Kairos

April 23, 2012 By 63 Comments
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My parents tell me that when I was less than three years old, I would wander around the garden with a little basket in hand saying that I was going to the market to buy 'Atto pork' (tomatoes and pork for the ignorant! ) for my husband who was in Goa. I'm not sure how I conceived this story but my brothers always teased me about 'my husband in Goa'. As I grew older my ambitions for life consisted of being a wife and a mom. So it seemed rather strange that I eventually became a wife only at 41 … [Read more...]

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An Easter Reflection

April 7, 2012 By 38 Comments
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This evening I was asking my mom how come we didn’t have any recollection in preparation for the Easter triduum. I felt my soul dry and asked God for relief. I rummaged my treasures from my memories and the books I read and three things came to my mind… Of Crabs, Onions And Caterpillar Columns: An Easter Reflection By: Melissa Tandoc I remembered my grandmother, when I was three, recounting Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Onion,” a fable from The Brothers Karamazov: Once upon a time … [Read more...]

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Above All

April 6, 2012 By 40 Comments
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It's so easy with the internet to appear to be all that you are not. I've interacted with people on the net and when I met them in real life their stories didn't add up. Just yesterday I went on what turned out to be a wild-goose chase. My brother came across someone who advertised some furniture on the internet and asked me check it out. The guy who had a great looking website and was an absolute smooth talker on the telephone turned out to be an absolute hoax. He had nothing he had advertised, … [Read more...]

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I’m Just A Passin’ Thru

March 13, 2012 By 41 Comments
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A Sufi of forbidding appearance arrived at the doors of the palace. No one dared to stop him as he made his way right up to the throne on which the saintly Ibrahim ben Adam sat. "What is it you want?" asked the King. "A place to sleep in this inn." "This is no inn. This is my palace." "May I ask who owned this place before you?" "My father. He is dead." "And who owned it before him?" "My grandfather. He is dead too." "And this place where people lodge for a brief while … [Read more...]

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Fame! I’m Going To Live Forever….

February 28, 2012 By 46 Comments
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photo credit: prayitno Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere. ~Mark 1:45 During my preteen and teen years, my bedroom walls are plastered with posters of pop music artists whom I adore. Idolize even. Oh, what I wouldn't give to meet just one of them! My adolescent fantasies hope, wistfully, that I, too, can one day be as … [Read more...]

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