Joy

Happy Monday! I am biased for experiences, for touch, for connection. There are things about the virtual world that does not resonate with me: 1. I cannot learn virtually.  I like to listen, do, see - and then I learn. 2. I could not consider Virtual Realities to be tours. 3. I am not satisfied with online e-meet ups. I lose focus and could not connect. 4. I want to feel interaction and sense how the person in front of me changes facial expression, color, temperature and energy when I connect with them.  5. I am not comfortable ordering food online. This has always been delegated to my sister ever since. I am doomed in the new normal. Guess what? Like many others like me, I have no choice   to MAKE A CHOICE. I have to adopt to low touch point lifestyle and make do with it.  I keep in mind that the fundamentals remain the same.  A mental shift is in order. 1. I not only learn virtually, I also have to teach in the virtual space. 2. Experiences in tours cannot be re

Happy Monday! How are you? Do you get this question from your friends nowadays? Suddenly you stop on your tracks (drop whatever is keeping you busy and sane and fighting and "oK") and sit down to reply? I never thought that this simple "How are you?" we throw in at the end of every greeting with any person we say hi to on the streets would mean so much. How are you? These three words tell me someone remembered, someone cared to ask. They tell me that I am not really "solo" and that I am at this moment going to connect to someone else, far away, but nonetheless near at heart. How are you? Sometimes, it also forces me to ask..."How am I?" Ok pa ba ako? Admittedly, I dealt with this quarantine through a flurry of webinars, watching videos and news, connecting people for a response, working even. I am busy. My mind keeps working. My social media accounts have never been busier. But, am I ok? I do have

Happy Easter Monday! "I will give you a joy that no one can take away from you." John 16:22 It is natural that we are protective of what we have: our family, our business, our money, our reputation, our health, our ideas, our memories. Our ongoing period on quarantine may have highlighted our "protectiveness" over one or many of these things in various ways. The more protective we are, the more we hold on, the more anxious we become. It is but fitting that this quarantine period also happened during lent...where we reflect on a great loss...that leads us to the anticipation of our greatest gain! Lent reminds us that we really cannot hold on to anything. Let me rephrase that. Lent reminds us that we NEED NOT hold on to anything simply because we can't. It is important that we become good stewards of what we are given, but that we are also prepared to render it back to the Master when needed. In the midst of all that, the source