Pukengkeng Liberation Front

THIS IS FOR YOU WEMOON ON THIS POWERFUL LUNAR ECLIPSE.   MAY APO BULAN AND NANAY BUWAN BLESS  AND ILLUMINE YOUR PATH DURING  THIS SEASON OF TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE. ANUNGAN is a ...

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"Madi pulos umanay ti maymaysa a sao" One language is never enough

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I am speechless. What is the adjective to describe this feeling that keeps courageously loving even after this kind of loss?  For the breath freely given, even as it is appropriated & commodifie...

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In this changing season, poetry helps to confirm and points a way through.   Gratitude to Joy for this. Helpful to have reminders to listen closely to life's  song lines and cadence.  The st...

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Thinking about home and homes away from home today. And I'm thinking about time and traveling.  I just booked my ticket for the holidays and re-orienting myself towards leaving O'ahu for a whil...

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>>  "Approfondment-a french word that means "playing easily in the >>  deep". Posting in gratitude to Rilke today and the poets who help me understand the million ways to listen and ...

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I posted this a while back on Pukengkeng Liberation Front.  But I thought it was worth  a re-post. Thank you D'bi Young on your take on love. It makes me cry. It helps me remember.  I'm ded...

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The Revolution Starts At Home Let's read this one together!

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I was struck by this poem yesterday.  It just popped up. In-between the  pages of the PacRim International Forum on the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities conference program, it called....

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> "A turned-on woman ignites other women. She refuses to deal in the > accepted inter-female commerce of one-downmanship, publicly > cataloging all the ways her life isn�...

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LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING THIS FILM WITH YOU!

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Check out this recent article recently posted on the Northern Dispatch Weekly blog!   What powerful life examples of courage from  Mother Petra and Ina Endena .  See also here !

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Hey y'all! Check it out! I just recently stumbled on to Charmaine Clamor's tunes .  And I had to share! I was amused and appreciated what Clamor was attempting to say overall about internali...

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As a birth doula and post partum doula in training, I've come to believe that the body is a site of redemption and a site of powerful remembering. Women's bodies provide the sacred function of...

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I need you to think on this with me!

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Pacita Abad Brenda Fajardo

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Here is a question recently posed to me: "What is the sensation at the point of connection?" A new koan for the summer of '09.

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What can you give up knowing? This is the question posed as a writing excercise on page 168 in Natalie Goldberg's book on writing memoir, Old Friend from Far Away. It's the perfect koan in this...

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My beloved blog readers: Yes. I know. It's true. I've been unfaithful and I've strayed from writing you here on the home pages of the PLF for months. I know this is hard for us both. I miss wr...

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THE PLF AND FRIENDS (Puki Liberation Front, an ensemble of Filipinas who last appeared in a cultural adaptation of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” in 2006) invite you to a dramatic...

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In the last few months, I have taken a break to write more privately and to sit with projects and new personal ventures. During this time, my Lola Mary passed on to the other side. At the end of ...

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I'm ready-here I go! It's my birthday month. And I'm turning a new page and I'm diving in... I'm excited! I'm excited! I'm excited!

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adding, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and Spiritual Youth For Reprodutive Freedom as well as innovative campaign from the Sierra Club that links reproductive health with the fate...

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hmm- what a lovely concept: Gracious Space "In the slow, delicate layering, there are necessary places of waiting, incubation, AND INTEGRATION. WITHIN THESE THINGS, LIES THE HOLINESS OF NON-...

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