Salamat, Father Mickley

Related: Father Richard Mickley, a Pioneer of the LGBT Movement in the Philippines, Has Passed Away Nang sumapit na ang araw ng kanilang paglilinis ayon sa Kautusan ni Moises, dinala ng kanyang mga magulang ang sanggol sa Jerusalem upang ihandog sa Panginoon. Ito ay ayon sa nakasaad sa Kautusan ng Panginoon, “Ang bawat panganay na lalaki […]

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Gardening: Patience And Process

There’s a quote by John Wenger that states, “You can’t pull on the plants and expect them to grow faster.” That is, you can’t force a seed to grow faster than nature intended it to, and you can’t make trees bear fruit on demand. All you can do is create the best possible conditions in […]

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Gardening: Work It, Gurl!

After you’ve prepared your soil and planted your seeds, there’s still lots of work to do in your garden. A garden requires constant care and attention. You need to do all of the following: Set a watering schedule; Pull weeds regularly, or crabgrass and all kinds of unwelcome weeds will sprout up; Prune trees, shrubs, […]

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Gardening: Plan And Listen

Well planted is not easily uprooted; Well taken care of is not easily taken away; And will be honored from generation to generation. Cultivated in yourself, goodness becomes real. Cultivated in your family it grows; Cultivated in your village it multiplies; Cultivated in your country it flourishes; Cultivated in the world it brings goodness everywhere. […]

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Which Garden: Egypt, Wilderness, or Canaan?

“Keep, then, the entire commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may have strength to go in and occupy the land that you are crossing over to occupy and so that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and to their descendants, a land flowing […]

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