Travel is an antidote to our provincialism.
Travel is an antidote to our provincialism.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” —Mark Twain This travel quote reminds me of a personal story. While traveling on a boat from Romblon to Boracay in the mid-’80s, I’ve met a French traveler named Christophe. He showed me minimalism before I’ve […]
Several decades ago, we were all strangers from different lands, with varying backgrounds and upbringing, but the Lord plucked us out from our individual comfort zones, and put us in a place inhabited by men in black and white. There, we were honed in the black and white tradition and discipline, but some of us […]
At the intersection of King and Bay Streets, a big yellow school bus full of kids stopped to unload its passengers. Right behind the bus, motorists in private cars and Uber cab passengers grew impatiently weary as kids take their time leisurely from getting off the bus, oblivious to the traffic urgency they created. School […]