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Easter, Coronavirus Update

April 12, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Dear Read­ers,

Hap­py East­er! May God’s lov­ing mer­cy fill your life.

I am shar­ing an arti­cle I wrote for Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino about Coro­n­avirus: The Begin­ning.  It talks about my vis­it to the Philip­pines in late Jan­u­ary, ear­ly Feb­ru­ary, when Coro­n­avirus was explod­ing in Chi­na. It begins:

“When I vis­it­ed Mani­la last Jan­u­ary 20 the air was thick with smog­gy haze from the ash fall of Taal Vol­cano. Taal had erupt­ed on Jan­u­ary 12–13 and destroyed people’s homes and farms and killed live­stock. Peo­ple in Luzon were busy help­ing the dis­placed peo­ple and clean­ing up the ash fall.

Still reel­ing from this dis­as­ter, peo­ple dis­cov­ered the news shift­ing to the dead­ly virus in Wuhan, Chi­na. The symp­toms of coro­n­avirus sound­ed like a very bad flu: fever, cough, mus­cle pain, pneu­mo­nia; but unlike the flu, coro­n­avirus could not be checked with a vac­cine, and it was dead­ly. Defy­ing Chi­nese author­i­ties, some doc­tors from Wuhan post­ed online hor­rif­ic reports about coro­n­avirus.  The nov­el virus was high­ly con­ta­gious; it was spread­ing like wild­fire; it was killing huge num­bers of peo­ple…” Please con­tin­ue read­ing in Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino, link here,

http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/coronavirus-the-beginning

I am back in Cal­i­for­nia and like most peo­ple I mon­i­tor the news, and stay home and try to be as safe as pos­si­ble.  I try to fill my time with cre­ative activ­i­ty, so I don’t obsess over these hor­rif­ic and sad events.  Despite the deaths and dis­rup­tion, I believe that Nature is talk­ing to us, call­ing our atten­tion, balk­ing at how Man has treat­ed our waters, our air, our forests, our ani­mals, every­thing around us.  As a result of the lock downs, the air is actu­al­ly clean­er and ani­mals have been vis­it­ing areas that they have not been seen in for some­time now, Venice Canal in Italy for instance has had dol­phin visitors.

Man will sur­vive, as it has oth­er pan­demics. Hope­ful­ly, Man will learn from this coro­n­avirus pandemice.

I pray that my read­ers will be safe. Bless­ings to all of you.  Peace be with you.

Here are some art­work I have been exper­i­ment­ing with. Today, East­er Sun­day, two God­dess images, mixed media.

tags: East­er, art, #writ­er­swholoveart  paint­ing, Fil­ipino, Philip­pines, #god­dess­es

 

 

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Art, goddesses, mixed media, painting

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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