tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75978172451012548382024-03-17T20:03:21.086-07:00TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARDCECILIA BRAINARD BLOG: A compilation of articles by Philippine American writer Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. Stop and rest for a while in my blogsite.Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.comBlogger2460125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-49794235229685692222023-12-21T10:34:00.000-08:002023-12-21T10:55:37.499-08:00Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from Cecilia Brainard<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsdV-WOGiVjZBD0BS_L1XVopv0DUEXffiqix_Km8Ui3KSK-c5wexAqYfy_sXlhT9hHnyPz_Y6zY0KC88FePSlp90y0jJ97ew37BF0LjWbKmzxHNtzsfCJyJmxrN5siyUau94zpJlbbe8qenyDqUIrGVfKetuAJE1PIBKet3J9IoY5UliJyrEWbaswo4mw/s4019/christmas2023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2975" data-original-width="4019" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFsdV-WOGiVjZBD0BS_L1XVopv0DUEXffiqix_Km8Ui3KSK-c5wexAqYfy_sXlhT9hHnyPz_Y6zY0KC88FePSlp90y0jJ97ew37BF0LjWbKmzxHNtzsfCJyJmxrN5siyUau94zpJlbbe8qenyDqUIrGVfKetuAJE1PIBKet3J9IoY5UliJyrEWbaswo4mw/s320/christmas2023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>I wish all my readers the best this holiday season! Blessings to you and your loved ones.</p><p>I am sharing with you a poem that appeared in the November 2024 issue of the Philippine Graphic. I do not always write poetry so this is "rare" if you will. Further, the Graphic, along with Focus Philippines and Mr. & Ms. were some of the magazines that published my early writings, and so this publication of "My Mother's Skirts" is special to me.</p><p>You can still get a copy of the November 2023 Graphic from Lazada. To those abroad, I am sharing this snapshot of the cover and page with my story. </p></blockquote><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUb7G1E24KPF-3ZJzqzgNjXDbsj9UMMZQJyMmhEEJmoUTm1kPr71TIpfUNeUcEXxCq0xXAmrzVYTHuk3kl042tJuhUfu1qZUacwjhvbyBne1n2h7vSP3oz7siddrG5nWJMG90T7SbbzH2hWEW-LeEnmfinogUNcOvWZUo40IlBTzd-UwEHze2FeE-qVYiG/s1280/graphic2023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="926" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUb7G1E24KPF-3ZJzqzgNjXDbsj9UMMZQJyMmhEEJmoUTm1kPr71TIpfUNeUcEXxCq0xXAmrzVYTHuk3kl042tJuhUfu1qZUacwjhvbyBne1n2h7vSP3oz7siddrG5nWJMG90T7SbbzH2hWEW-LeEnmfinogUNcOvWZUo40IlBTzd-UwEHze2FeE-qVYiG/w464-h640/graphic2023.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHyozfb72Cnn0rqNsJv4nB38LRoG-B1Fv50Y5972kAqCqLQBOAe46j7R_baTw8oYJbvHP8xw9cwBEUwpcN6eorv4jfRE0bj10A-EKr-kmVOQ7sk2OCL0RVlQa0zVkmDz-dg2BILFqN_4rdAmEfbP3DU1eIsZAd7XkVpTNnf899WuGm2Ztd2uSgnhB_Eck/s1280/motherskirtsstory2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="926" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHyozfb72Cnn0rqNsJv4nB38LRoG-B1Fv50Y5972kAqCqLQBOAe46j7R_baTw8oYJbvHP8xw9cwBEUwpcN6eorv4jfRE0bj10A-EKr-kmVOQ7sk2OCL0RVlQa0zVkmDz-dg2BILFqN_4rdAmEfbP3DU1eIsZAd7XkVpTNnf899WuGm2Ztd2uSgnhB_Eck/w464-h640/motherskirtsstory2.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div>Tags: Christmas story, Cecilia Brainard poems, Philippine literature, Cebuano literature </div>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-84134304752731591022023-12-11T12:32:00.000-08:002023-12-11T18:45:08.467-08:00Interview of Author Cecilia Brainard by Lennie Jean Panugaling<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDczO9Wnt1Fc1t6civ2fZfg3K5F7voYGvOKgwXFmLBqhuOSVfhpQJlH1wNy_bxCidIDo0zzWdWB79i7qgeCUn7zZrV5bwx4hCivhHoYgg9oG0El7MtyWoOQ5KjAJKaHwYfZwrPZfZDoEnNBOlUENCFBgLubJpGJE7VFtVd0ZmN7ez0jY76es6_8YG7J6k6/s2775/Selected%20Stories%20CMB%20PALHfront.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1876" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDczO9Wnt1Fc1t6civ2fZfg3K5F7voYGvOKgwXFmLBqhuOSVfhpQJlH1wNy_bxCidIDo0zzWdWB79i7qgeCUn7zZrV5bwx4hCivhHoYgg9oG0El7MtyWoOQ5KjAJKaHwYfZwrPZfZDoEnNBOlUENCFBgLubJpGJE7VFtVd0ZmN7ez0jY76es6_8YG7J6k6/s320/Selected%20Stories%20CMB%20PALHfront.jpg" width="216"></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Interview </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of Cecilia Brainard by Lennie Jean Panugaling from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carcar City College</span></i></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Language Research Subject “The Heart
of Cecilia Manguerra’s Masterpieces”</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Stories studied: A Very Short Story, Flying
a Kite, My Mother Is Dying</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Hello Lennie Jean,</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you for the interview. I
recommend that you also do research about my work aside from the three short shorts. Recommended links:</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://ceciliabrainard.com/">https://ceciliabrainard.com/</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Check out interviews and sources)<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/">https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (On the side are “Cecilia Brainard
Fiction” for more stories that you can read, including novel excerpts)<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLo3H-Pdy1g&t=355s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLo3H-Pdy1g&t=355s</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(The Cebuana in the World: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Writing Out of
Cebu. Watch documentary, and please “Like” on Youtube. Thank you.)</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-Ijbiw5oANkjVDcp65Z-Z7nM8Lfm4StfF0aqaSwLlLKyq1d8xFEWdEBzwiLU1vU-oKzaDwF13gUzmdX7lOVAjiCTDlvxym08YrT1hNAkAk96HMNsKRzGNdhGDb5QJGx6btE_zCJVoG3EVydodMXx0GQSOnYxn-PKj4hJG5vfHLju4OJAz7QzRA10_rWB/s1152/ceciliabookscollage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1152" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-Ijbiw5oANkjVDcp65Z-Z7nM8Lfm4StfF0aqaSwLlLKyq1d8xFEWdEBzwiLU1vU-oKzaDwF13gUzmdX7lOVAjiCTDlvxym08YrT1hNAkAk96HMNsKRzGNdhGDb5QJGx6btE_zCJVoG3EVydodMXx0GQSOnYxn-PKj4hJG5vfHLju4OJAz7QzRA10_rWB/s320/ceciliabookscollage.jpg" width="320"></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Interviewer: </b>Yesterday, our panelists were
excited to find out that you responded to me on Facebook, leaving them
intrigued about the prevalence of heartbreak in your stories. As you navigate
the creative process, what influences or thoughts guide you to infuse your
narratives with poignant emotions? Are personal painful memories a significant
source of inspiration for you?</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Cecilia Brainard:</b> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">You
have chosen three of my stories referred to as Fast Fiction or Short Shorts,
meaning each story is under a thousand words long. Stories this short are
written in a precise way, with each word having relevance in the story. In some
ways, they are almost like poetry.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Why
do my stories deal with poignant emotions? Are personal painful memories a
significant source of inspiration for me?</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><b> </b></span>Two important elements of story telling are “character”
and “conflict”. If you analyze good stories, you will find that there is a main
character who has some kind of conflict or problem. The story revolves around
how the character deals with the conflict. Stories will involve the emotions of
the characters. There are other elements in storytelling like plot, dialogue,
voice, and so on, but I’m focusing on these two elements in order to answer
your question. If you write of a character who doesn’t have conflict, who is
perfectly happy for instance, you will not have a story. A character without
conflict or a problem will have no challenges; he/she will not be motivated to
do anything; your written work will be static or will meander and boring. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This is why when I work with my characters, when I am
figuring out their stories, I have to find out what their conflicts/problems are.
And I have to find out how my characters will respond to these conflicts (or
stresses). The decisions they make in response to their conflicts constitute
what we call plot. Their emotional reactions and changes are called character
development (or character arc); and this is what makes the piece feel like a
story. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To answer your second question about whether personal
painful memories are a significant source of inspiration for me: I don’t rely
solely on my memories for inspiration, but draw from history, from folklore,
from personal observation of the people I have come across. For instance, my
first novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When the Rainbow Goddess</i>
is about World War Two in the Philippines. I used many stories I heard from my
parents in this novel. I have many stories that have been inspired by my
childhood in Cebu, and these stories integrate memories of the people I knew or
had seen and my own personal life. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out the documentary about me <i>The Cebuana
in the World: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Writing Out of</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cebu</i> – see link above. The documentary will give you an idea of the
various stories I tell and where they come from.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/12/interview-of-author-cecilia-brainard-by.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-24521252543227731442023-12-10T11:02:00.000-08:002023-12-11T12:32:50.047-08:00Interview of Author Cecilia Brainard by Cris Al Maglinte Cagoscos <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD9bJWS-20kRin1DMpKAXawmJTKqy4m2r_dZyBfrlFWCoXVId25qiXtpFf-Vbj1s47Lp2sCi7q13_12fwiHkhgK09cH81aghZYr4whyhgbMG6Q1NRcOvAoYz8hp0DZrjZjRjBhROmh5G6nER9Al7hXMhVaNUfO0_pYhbN1zcZ5QC018NzaIbApDp9Ac2QY/s3238/Woman2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3238" data-original-width="2188" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD9bJWS-20kRin1DMpKAXawmJTKqy4m2r_dZyBfrlFWCoXVId25qiXtpFf-Vbj1s47Lp2sCi7q13_12fwiHkhgK09cH81aghZYr4whyhgbMG6Q1NRcOvAoYz8hp0DZrjZjRjBhROmh5G6nER9Al7hXMhVaNUfO0_pYhbN1zcZ5QC018NzaIbApDp9Ac2QY/s320/Woman2.jpg" width="216"></a></div><br><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">For Cris Al Maglinte
Cagoscos & Classmates</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Cebu Technology
University-Moalboal Campus</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Literary Analysis:
Narrative Strategies and Cultural Implications in Cecilia Manguerra Brainard</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Short Stories”</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Re "Flip Gothic" and "Woman
with Horns", we would like to ask what inspired and motivated you to write these
two stories and how they relate to your past experiences.</span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVm2hyphenhyphentpw98UQFRvsyGEAq1vXVzE0nQ7lLZ03hbKK1Z2IK21cUd7Gw6_l0r03wWadQEsObASWvS4kNJpD6z4do5p718_8xyMvLNjwbIss13sRpug50P7tWQcPL7JJ6HO2ZCEaU4o11ZkuxuXDp08vccHRpK_ckXYrYHFgdJtLKJYem3bdhuYvv37AlD1xl/s2999/acapulco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2999" data-original-width="1951" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVm2hyphenhyphentpw98UQFRvsyGEAq1vXVzE0nQ7lLZ03hbKK1Z2IK21cUd7Gw6_l0r03wWadQEsObASWvS4kNJpD6z4do5p718_8xyMvLNjwbIss13sRpug50P7tWQcPL7JJ6HO2ZCEaU4o11ZkuxuXDp08vccHRpK_ckXYrYHFgdJtLKJYem3bdhuYvv37AlD1xl/s320/acapulco.jpg" width="208"></a></div><br><p></p>
<p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Hi, Cris,</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Thank you and your
classmates for your interest.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I highly recommend that you do some research
as well about my work – see links below, and there are more links listed in my
official website. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Recommended Links:</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="https://ceciliabrainard.com/">https://ceciliabrainard.com/</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">
- Click on “About” and check out Interviews and Sources<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The Cebuana in the World:
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Writing Out of Cebu - <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLo3H-Pdy1g&t=355s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLo3H-Pdy1g&t=355s</a></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Visit and search “Woman
With Horns” and “Flip Gothic” in my blog: <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/">https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/</a></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Re
Woman with</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Horns</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Woman with Horns was one
of my earlier short stories when I was interested in the historical background
of Cebu, albeit transformed as Ubec in my imagination. In schools I had been
taught that “Magellan discovered the Philippines” which I realized was a
fallacy because the Philippines had people way before Magellan showed up. In
other words that statement “Magellan discovered the Philippines” was coming
from a Eurocentric point of view. I was keenly aware of the Western orientation
in the Philippines, by the books we read, the movies that we saw, the music
that we danced to, our awe at American or European cultures.</span></p><p></p></blockquote><span></span><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/12/interview-of-cecilia-brainard-by-cris.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-50653522061652517532023-11-14T12:30:00.000-08:002023-11-17T15:42:23.392-08:00Travel - 15-day Cruise Princess Cruise to Hawaii<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI9KWgEgCW2QS2_mJNSTCHJbMIyFrqPSYoOvt0RUKH-7oBRiiArwR2pjqbFtFY59J4QeIuJ8gGrFSCCcjyK4jmplldrusUoN9d0R9BtgFSRiHyKOim8U4a9m2y3x9oBApfOCxgQ74GamoyzEM-OTNQaQCv8cqtQdiO-JzPZGVyoSBQ0r7iLAZC8XPW8Mfw/s931/PXL_20231023_213348682.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="701" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI9KWgEgCW2QS2_mJNSTCHJbMIyFrqPSYoOvt0RUKH-7oBRiiArwR2pjqbFtFY59J4QeIuJ8gGrFSCCcjyK4jmplldrusUoN9d0R9BtgFSRiHyKOim8U4a9m2y3x9oBApfOCxgQ74GamoyzEM-OTNQaQCv8cqtQdiO-JzPZGVyoSBQ0r7iLAZC8XPW8Mfw/s320/PXL_20231023_213348682.jpg" width="241"></a></div><br><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>I am incredibly behind with my blogging, so I've gone ahead and posted some pictures taken during our 15-day Princess Cruise to Hawaii. I'll try to fill in later on, in the meantime, enjoy the pictures. </p><p>Ports of Call: Los Angeles, Big Island (Hilo), Oahu (Honolulu), Kauai (Kawiliwili Harbor), Big Island (Kona), Ensenada</p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTLSnSJIfBq8mrwHhj9nEQD94BSBDXaRlVz5T6gzsOBD5x9YzApdYy8BuADQalD3M_L_qrgGnshwDR2Hf6qAhfqZu7K7aTXO31WkFbSIeefVqFq_tT4y919SeuowdMPIYquJvKgx1tqvDfbY3_TqMIuIGJ-aZbpehb3cDhv4bT5ZMra_Dhw1RA_xsRT0vV/s931/PXL_20231025_030417546.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="701" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTLSnSJIfBq8mrwHhj9nEQD94BSBDXaRlVz5T6gzsOBD5x9YzApdYy8BuADQalD3M_L_qrgGnshwDR2Hf6qAhfqZu7K7aTXO31WkFbSIeefVqFq_tT4y919SeuowdMPIYquJvKgx1tqvDfbY3_TqMIuIGJ-aZbpehb3cDhv4bT5ZMra_Dhw1RA_xsRT0vV/s320/PXL_20231025_030417546.jpg" width="241"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-R4nlxkfljf0UmDgrSHEYHrGymNpOzmZru_y3t8_efoU9CYwPaCzEQPu2I-lkbyH641M8rgEHy_gVC-F4sNp6UsX4z2TAIulHu6p2ZFTpNOJnqK0BOuKs0g-WxYZvp98ANaqtVPIkB4YJJDdrVbuohMEJroeDaLTMmOLtHsUYFMg64785HMKcbaWluLX/s931/PXL_20231025_031045082~3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-R4nlxkfljf0UmDgrSHEYHrGymNpOzmZru_y3t8_efoU9CYwPaCzEQPu2I-lkbyH641M8rgEHy_gVC-F4sNp6UsX4z2TAIulHu6p2ZFTpNOJnqK0BOuKs0g-WxYZvp98ANaqtVPIkB4YJJDdrVbuohMEJroeDaLTMmOLtHsUYFMg64785HMKcbaWluLX/s320/PXL_20231025_031045082~3.jpg" width="193"></a></div><br><span></span><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/11/travel-15-day-cruise-princess-cruise-to.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-55944255723931574572023-11-09T08:25:00.000-08:002023-11-09T08:25:04.756-08:00Travel - San Miguel De Allende: A Mexican Heritage<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbQD_E6EnYmI-SPQaDXxcDtVMInQYVXmInlximA5ZpaMG-TMQc2gfTCajIhsrdoOGQQYKj7eL6EjVGbAeFmwupTgiL2VBv191POvJnowAB70RAdsg6q6J8I9Mj3uN-H_gcLpLI4k-_HSEPV8cc6iUPrQsm6-V6ecPezfphQbzl4341Oe9roraQUg8eB-po/s1500/4smamojiganga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="1500" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbQD_E6EnYmI-SPQaDXxcDtVMInQYVXmInlximA5ZpaMG-TMQc2gfTCajIhsrdoOGQQYKj7eL6EjVGbAeFmwupTgiL2VBv191POvJnowAB70RAdsg6q6J8I9Mj3uN-H_gcLpLI4k-_HSEPV8cc6iUPrQsm6-V6ecPezfphQbzl4341Oe9roraQUg8eB-po/s320/4smamojiganga.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">For your weekend reading, take a trip to Mexico and read
"San Miguel De Allende: A Mexican Heritage Jewel" by Cecilia
Brainard, published in Positively Filipino.</p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please "like" at the bottom of the</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">article. Thank you and have a great weekend coming up!</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/san-miguel-de-allende-a-mexican-heritage-jewel">https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/san-miguel-de-allende-a-mexican-heritage-jewel</a> </p><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3g4K0CKL60rAa_KuMrXrI1UkDdC7TbIQaBlubUALK72l4-zY0faFUSTQbZU_VIgs2Xn_p9XuA2tdTBhVp5a3ZleJvo5VB7W05hFMVbvDHC8E0_9ec9-pSRMlQ7e-mBRg0mtcRlKtHaazQu6tCOobZ3uuIp27wW1cAXV1mD3O_2Wla8pc__aymCxLTH7qR/s1500/5smarooftop2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3g4K0CKL60rAa_KuMrXrI1UkDdC7TbIQaBlubUALK72l4-zY0faFUSTQbZU_VIgs2Xn_p9XuA2tdTBhVp5a3ZleJvo5VB7W05hFMVbvDHC8E0_9ec9-pSRMlQ7e-mBRg0mtcRlKtHaazQu6tCOobZ3uuIp27wW1cAXV1mD3O_2Wla8pc__aymCxLTH7qR/s320/5smarooftop2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Tags: Mexico travel, SMA travel, San Miguel travel, holiday, Mexican holiday <p></p>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-101108894750066152023-11-07T08:55:00.004-08:002023-11-07T08:55:59.308-08:00Growing Up Filipino 3 Finalist for 41st National Book Awards<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdJciNPb-aWkAz-WnOXATiYZPeIS1FLXLiYji4ediQJYtIpVZsag0hLsXwyBh0N6RPTL9X6lRfvTt9O82qNANQeDxUdLhWaelPQ0Z9hyrdh8xLm2fx1T0-4-4LNCW8ri8lS_aIQM_hZCIFgysnHu3IsS2JqmLlHTQ7j-embLphm9BLxXRqUEQ37dnlPZv/s1080/NATIONAL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdJciNPb-aWkAz-WnOXATiYZPeIS1FLXLiYji4ediQJYtIpVZsag0hLsXwyBh0N6RPTL9X6lRfvTt9O82qNANQeDxUdLhWaelPQ0Z9hyrdh8xLm2fx1T0-4-4LNCW8ri8lS_aIQM_hZCIFgysnHu3IsS2JqmLlHTQ7j-embLphm9BLxXRqUEQ37dnlPZv/s320/NATIONAL.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div>I just learned that the book, GROWING UP FILIPINO 3 is a finalist for the 41st National Book Award (Anthology, English). </div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div>I am grateful to the National Book Development Board – Philippines, Manila Critics Circle, UST Publishing House, and contributors to the anthology:</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div>Gina Apostol, Kannika Pena, Jack Wigley, Veronica Montes, Nikki Alfar, Yvette Fernandez, Danton Remoto, Cecilia Brainard, George Deoso, Patricia Manuel Go, Migs Bravo Dutt, Ian Casocot, James Fajarito, Sarge Lacuesta, Dom Sy, Eileen Tabios, Marianne Villanueva, Marilyn Alquizola, Brian Roley, Patrick Joseph Caoile, Zak Linmark, Linda Ty-Casper, Renee Macalino Rutledge, Noelle De Jesus, and Oscar Penaranda.</div></div><div> </div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div>The anthology Growing Up Filipino 3 is available from the UST bookstore, Lazada, Shopee, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. Look for it at Fully Booked as well.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div> </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a"><div>For Book Reviews about Growing Up Filipino 3 - <a href="https://ceciliabrainard.com/book/growing-up-filipino-3-new-stories-for-young-adults/">please click here: </a></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixN6oOsuC9sWCIQFN9FZU5mdVfcM6kNE6oJsLKC7ik958mOgsWZgfiSonSErvbClISF2iEYWrDrc6m4MHduQcxmEP1jqoz3AAy4RdNveP1NDyh0CfvnkWy1CrhUPHD35jCiO-kLVbrUMQk3q6tjxHvu5xLDS-I_QzyUNYNjwTglNkpJI7J6QCnZBAZtliq/s770/GUF3covers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="770" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixN6oOsuC9sWCIQFN9FZU5mdVfcM6kNE6oJsLKC7ik958mOgsWZgfiSonSErvbClISF2iEYWrDrc6m4MHduQcxmEP1jqoz3AAy4RdNveP1NDyh0CfvnkWy1CrhUPHD35jCiO-kLVbrUMQk3q6tjxHvu5xLDS-I_QzyUNYNjwTglNkpJI7J6QCnZBAZtliq/s320/GUF3covers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Tags: Filipino YA books, Filipino YA fiction, FilAm literature, FilAm YA, Filipino teens, Filipino youths, Filipino American youths</p>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-40954150281185139482023-09-25T11:51:00.006-07:002023-09-25T13:43:47.885-07:00Excerpt from THE INVENTOR by Eileen R. Tabios<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PCVxiDErsPamdxdAx-c8k-3p_eK-YvlwlaJXo1_EUH_-DwraNifV_WbXy1lfEMzlCqvNqEIX62reqKoiwGq0Owb2Dt3R902Rl_cAXJFZZyDJ8T5_FvwSb2COsyT0QMPbfXmI9nuVvSQdzYA-BXnPCmNpTQJj5Nhdake9AjMiNJtoLgORukqfZeyFZYx5/s1280/1Cover%20Front.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="860" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PCVxiDErsPamdxdAx-c8k-3p_eK-YvlwlaJXo1_EUH_-DwraNifV_WbXy1lfEMzlCqvNqEIX62reqKoiwGq0Owb2Dt3R902Rl_cAXJFZZyDJ8T5_FvwSb2COsyT0QMPbfXmI9nuVvSQdzYA-BXnPCmNpTQJj5Nhdake9AjMiNJtoLgORukqfZeyFZYx5/s320/1Cover%20Front.jpeg" width="215"></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><b>Following is an excerpt from Eileen R. Tabios' recent book, The Inventor. It is reprinted with her permission. </b></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">~ </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Marsh Hawk Press’ Introduction of <i>THE
INVENTOR</i> by Eileen R. Tabios:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">
In 2023, Marsh Hawk Press releases Eileen R. Tabios’ <i>THE INVENTOR</i>, a
unique project for providing insights into creating poetic forms against an
autobiographical background and part of our “Chapter One” series acclaimed by
Publishers Weekly for presenting the writers’ craft in real life. From Eileen
R. Tabios: “I wrote <i>THE INVENTOR</i>, not because it’s about my life but,
because it’s an autobiography that connects history, language, and poetry in a
unique way beyond narratives. I learned English because it became widespread in
my birth land, the Philippines, through U.S. colonialism. That caused me, as a
young poet, to feel estranged from my raw material: English. My poetry
practice, however, would lift me out of politics to meet poetry more directly
as its own type of language. Ultimately, my prolonged engagement with poetry
enabled me to create poetry inventions that metaphorically disrupts colonialism
by generating communities of readers and writers worldwide. These inventions
include the hay(na)ku which has spread globally among poets and the “Flooid”
whose pre-writing condition precedent of a “good deed” makes poetry live
redemptively and beyond the page. In <i>THE INVENTOR</i>, I show how Poetry is
not mere words but a proactive approach to improving our relationships with
each other and life on our planet.”</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">
BOOK LINK TO THE INVENTOR: </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://eileenrtabios.com/prose-collections/the-inventor/"><span style="color: blue;">https://eileenrtabios.com/prose-collections/the-inventor/</span></a></span></u></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">
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poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers headquartered
in 10 countries and cyberspace. In 2023 she released the poetry collection <i>Because
I Love You, I Become War</i>; an autobiography,<i> The Inventor: A
Transcolonial Poet’s Autobiography; </i>and her first flash fiction collection,<i>
Getting To One </i>(in collaboration with harry k stammer).<i> </i>Other recent
books include a first novel <i>DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times</i>; two
French books, <i>PRISES</i> (trans. Fanny Garin) and <i>La Vie erotique de
l’art</i> (trans. Samuel Rochery); and a book-length essay <i>Kapwa’s Novels</i>.
In 2024, her books include<i> KalapatiLeon, </i>Danton Remoto’s Filipino
translation of <i>DoveLion</i> (University of Santo Tomas Press)<i>.</i></span></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span></span></p><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/09/in-honor-of-filipino-american-writer.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-88430772788562981672023-09-24T15:35:00.013-07:002023-09-25T00:15:45.824-07:00John Hanley - Irish American Friend<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2OjtI3oV4WvKC49EBpdFUQLVRXoooVLgz0IozRiUHw8-x2ta2wSgB111STlerWJbTkXbLhp6hBsamLByqdDWebl-urT-ujrGpE6lw7Di-7AQhJkUNC24k2DBlGrXJWPIJEsfruMq28-fERl3vNJGj5spSoSth8yTokGPkHV-d6PY386qPgvVKHFssHjjF/s3072/ireland08%20128.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="3072" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2OjtI3oV4WvKC49EBpdFUQLVRXoooVLgz0IozRiUHw8-x2ta2wSgB111STlerWJbTkXbLhp6hBsamLByqdDWebl-urT-ujrGpE6lw7Di-7AQhJkUNC24k2DBlGrXJWPIJEsfruMq28-fERl3vNJGj5spSoSth8yTokGPkHV-d6PY386qPgvVKHFssHjjF/s320/ireland08%20128.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>We lost a friend, John Hanley. For years, John played golf with my husband, and they had great fun at the course and at the pub afterwards. Guinness was John's favorite.</p><p>When we visited Ireland in 2008, John (who was born in Ireland) happened to be there, and he met us for a day. Knowing I was a Marian devotee, he brought us to the Basilica of Our Lady of Knock. From Knock, we visited his cousin who has a peat-burning stove. He explained how families were entitled to digging peat for their use. We had tea and talked and had a very lovely time. </p><p>Not too long ago, John got ill and passed away. We are very sad about this and extend our sincerest condolences to his family and friends. </p><p>Here are some pictures taken in Ireland with John. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXP9fBLz-cyiSuj6McpV9VfC2cjzFaJRJsugisvMkpsWxiL-koOAGqxMH_x8BLWddTvucsDfPZT8ZI34W4UOmufErFbDnOSWotsHFmcQQyZYKgGhepDFkEFsn6yoDf7ePGNtrAGoxvnD--JER4VdC61lCUEb__65sqMGKP7a7zUOKi40kiyBcDI7otM1wa/s3072/ireland08%20114.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="3072" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXP9fBLz-cyiSuj6McpV9VfC2cjzFaJRJsugisvMkpsWxiL-koOAGqxMH_x8BLWddTvucsDfPZT8ZI34W4UOmufErFbDnOSWotsHFmcQQyZYKgGhepDFkEFsn6yoDf7ePGNtrAGoxvnD--JER4VdC61lCUEb__65sqMGKP7a7zUOKi40kiyBcDI7otM1wa/s320/ireland08%20114.jpg" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOBbtk6hLt-kG4FhPvGI1IyyDSu0I5V5amaytmzOUXuv_Ma3t5cdR7Ry6YRj3LLxfLT5_7VQlwF7t-VcTUYW5m9vB_5Ac0_kkLw6rrh7Exc1Miy22JbrpW_-6E_G-6Ncdz0tlNlbDPI53N68hk67eMBT77ggXCOWKbJZwi8GE16fNu5pCWHA2p7U2Cx_86/s3072/ireland08%20115.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-5863966549341218642023-09-13T13:41:00.001-07:002023-09-13T13:41:06.641-07:00Gintong Aklat Finalist - Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI34cdT6RgMxJeydcEt3rdPh12NfKqGjtcG60kBq1LVwBqnKJkI4AumHtdLJXjJDqA8WRetHDkALAlNTF65il6ysmZ4sFybyDz5PAO55Yv5zxhSiLzpgwO5JvGC698cc6Ohm3VImTl5tq3go7XQNqUSSQ3ui-AJAwCiQbfPu-61E-XIMweuuNdjb-UHEsd/s1264/378234086_10161189679698554_4693369059730960550_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI34cdT6RgMxJeydcEt3rdPh12NfKqGjtcG60kBq1LVwBqnKJkI4AumHtdLJXjJDqA8WRetHDkALAlNTF65il6ysmZ4sFybyDz5PAO55Yv5zxhSiLzpgwO5JvGC698cc6Ohm3VImTl5tq3go7XQNqUSSQ3ui-AJAwCiQbfPu-61E-XIMweuuNdjb-UHEsd/s320/378234086_10161189679698554_4693369059730960550_n.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">My collection SELECTED SHORT STORIES BY CECILIA MANGUERRA BRAINARD is a Finalist for the Gintong Aklat Award 2022 (fiction in English). The same book won the 40th National Book Award (Short Fiction English).</span></p></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If you are going to the 44th Manila International Fair, please look for my book at the booth of the publisher University of Santo Tomas Publishing House</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the Philippines look for the book on Lazada and Shopee as well. You can find the book in Amazon, Barnes and Noble for an easy purchase.</div></div></blockquote><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><i>Selected Short Stories by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard</i> collects 39 of the Filipina American author’s short fiction. The collection includes some of her best short fiction, including stories that deal with fictional Manila and Mexico, Intramuros and Acapulco, Ubec and Cebu.</div></blockquote></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><i>Selected Short Stories</i> includes a very long story (one would call it a novella), “Melisande in Paris”, which is about the French seamstress who appears in Cecilia’s third novel, The Newspaper Widow. Melisande is the friend of the protagonist in the literary mystery The Newspaper Widow. Melisande and Ines solve the crime of the dead priest in Ubec’s creek. But Melisande had a whole other story back in Paris before she went to Ubec. “Melisande in Paris” is that story.</div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">For more information about the book, please click on this site:</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://ceciliabrainard.com/book/selected-short-stories-by-cecilia-manguerra-brainard/">https://ceciliabrainard.com/book/selected-short-stories-by-cecilia-manguerra-brainard/</a></span></span></div></div></blockquote><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzobhL2bEy5BmLq5-dLD9eoeJF8-9YnlHHSTKL-3F_CWyNlppy4HBiR6xUMwt3YkTqkWPeB5jiQmg-QEf7_4JM5ST6nLsysb3Szyv6ylHOPX9-cS__aPz3w8Jr_wZfQsiFEAEdo5yDHK86_Mum3LFq78YdV-_GfysHua4UlY_Mz-hani38ZLrBaUbfSUzb/s1350/selectedSScovsm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="908" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzobhL2bEy5BmLq5-dLD9eoeJF8-9YnlHHSTKL-3F_CWyNlppy4HBiR6xUMwt3YkTqkWPeB5jiQmg-QEf7_4JM5ST6nLsysb3Szyv6ylHOPX9-cS__aPz3w8Jr_wZfQsiFEAEdo5yDHK86_Mum3LFq78YdV-_GfysHua4UlY_Mz-hani38ZLrBaUbfSUzb/s320/selectedSScovsm.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tags: Filipino books, Filipino authors, Pinoy books, FilAm books, Philippine literature, Filipino book awards</div></div>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-73366348792534124012023-08-15T19:14:00.005-07:002023-08-15T19:14:45.870-07:00Fil Am Writers Gather in Santa Monica, CA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgx59YyCStsYxI0h6-Pr21qOoX6ABhPDOhWtJY9H5NKivQLuHukF0_ZJo9wkolU5nzxCyQFpj84XIrweLcWRFvr8lsavqK8E5--YUo3PNxl5RZAdefiGFpkapDYCHtq-dW30G3axqzK6NvudAzGrU5kzMH14UoOSqc8NAdyvqYr5Zx7_aieTHoOcNxRag7/s4000/LAgroup6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgx59YyCStsYxI0h6-Pr21qOoX6ABhPDOhWtJY9H5NKivQLuHukF0_ZJo9wkolU5nzxCyQFpj84XIrweLcWRFvr8lsavqK8E5--YUo3PNxl5RZAdefiGFpkapDYCHtq-dW30G3axqzK6NvudAzGrU5kzMH14UoOSqc8NAdyvqYr5Zx7_aieTHoOcNxRag7/s320/LAgroup6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">A group of us had lunch at my home with the writer Brian Ascalon Roley (author American Son) who's visiting Santa Monica, CA. Present were: Joselyn Geaga-Rosenthal, Brian Roley, Marilyn Alquizola (America is in the Heart: a Personal History revised), Jaime Geaga, Noel Alumit (author Letters to Montgomery Clift), and me.<div> </div><div>We had such great fun talking about literature, politics, being Filipino/Fil-am, and other topics.</div><div> </div><div>We are planning another get together when Brian returns, and that will be in Historic Filipino Town, LA.</div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div> </div><div>I'm sharing photos that we took. The selfie shows, l-r: Noel, Jaime, Cecilia (in red) , Brian, Joselyn (in yellow), and Marilyn.</div><div> </div><div>We missed Herminia Menez Coben, Paulino and Barbara Lim.</div></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3UNw8gPhhtM-TdTnsdQCEh1pnlb8BS8SzOvHWtLiOYt4bvcDUcRKdrVlkiJg2uBcH26GXBTcdnCGdsxocivMlCNbcTxFKCTBDUzr2GaK7gr_fjGLMNfYzUnuZgtmbaMi5M17XzdqrCrcpoo95bhDujMbNiNxL3yv2DK4uZI6CVmyGsZ962ePgc1hlace/s4080/LAgroup2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3UNw8gPhhtM-TdTnsdQCEh1pnlb8BS8SzOvHWtLiOYt4bvcDUcRKdrVlkiJg2uBcH26GXBTcdnCGdsxocivMlCNbcTxFKCTBDUzr2GaK7gr_fjGLMNfYzUnuZgtmbaMi5M17XzdqrCrcpoo95bhDujMbNiNxL3yv2DK4uZI6CVmyGsZ962ePgc1hlace/s320/LAgroup2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqnLnBoJHvSppEYSmU0E8qRXdDe2NpZTijfoCsBOh52BKSr9aj9ku4-77JDNgOM3r2Z6ZAgQZmPRYICZKMytHHXb4aC1QL9GSGiXcsP_cobpamz7QK-4ot8bID4j09Z9D6cohfRvgHsFgFmNsSnETgnaGMNkh6uiWI8Ar3XF4jpGWnnamJ3wOByngsxIZp/s4080/LAgroup3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqnLnBoJHvSppEYSmU0E8qRXdDe2NpZTijfoCsBOh52BKSr9aj9ku4-77JDNgOM3r2Z6ZAgQZmPRYICZKMytHHXb4aC1QL9GSGiXcsP_cobpamz7QK-4ot8bID4j09Z9D6cohfRvgHsFgFmNsSnETgnaGMNkh6uiWI8Ar3XF4jpGWnnamJ3wOByngsxIZp/s320/LAgroup3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjX2N-whmdm7WJV6eZeTXZmxC5107zK4x-8-JTMaR3ZPsY1GefIYLzha_ttQdSEg0CJ1_WRqLSdsR_fTyD102G6cLxT6Rq1Gaptu-U2X7tE4_aDw1akQK8rpkWqcJp3Ks_ONdA6OSQyi2JuHLKVyachx3LDF4VKyPFE4pJfZEYQi3_e_SxbihyQrAOS32/s4080/LAgroup4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjX2N-whmdm7WJV6eZeTXZmxC5107zK4x-8-JTMaR3ZPsY1GefIYLzha_ttQdSEg0CJ1_WRqLSdsR_fTyD102G6cLxT6Rq1Gaptu-U2X7tE4_aDw1akQK8rpkWqcJp3Ks_ONdA6OSQyi2JuHLKVyachx3LDF4VKyPFE4pJfZEYQi3_e_SxbihyQrAOS32/s320/LAgroup4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasUPncAkugt0vmrQr-ig9qmltXbqBQttEDA9Md_bwPKNviEm1OT8ic_ih-xE0Z46G0Un9hlGK4JrkoV3sSLc2p7W8Vfe5e9I3Uo7v0kxysF6pwDsr8yXxzLPeB9Fza4rESz5t5X_LIj3In0FxngM-HrHVJlAdo87J5qq2whXd-lvEQKuUVE8AUOG69Jvr/s4080/LAgroup5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasUPncAkugt0vmrQr-ig9qmltXbqBQttEDA9Md_bwPKNviEm1OT8ic_ih-xE0Z46G0Un9hlGK4JrkoV3sSLc2p7W8Vfe5e9I3Uo7v0kxysF6pwDsr8yXxzLPeB9Fza4rESz5t5X_LIj3In0FxngM-HrHVJlAdo87J5qq2whXd-lvEQKuUVE8AUOG69Jvr/s320/LAgroup5.jpg" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tags: Filipino American writers, FilAm writers, FilAm literature</div><br />Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-25995841201711874482023-08-15T09:39:00.008-07:002023-08-15T09:45:03.395-07:00Magnificat - Mary's House in Ephesus, Turkey <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbsrZi_QGYxsBdaDycV7hdEK1tyBRMB_LaNsN54RY9-J6BUzaAB4ummGEuFAC5J2ijxOcMP1YW9fzymjM6B7QDFDNmZJtSHx-5mGFTQY-E_DKept1DcOzV02Wjyj0rCq1RaV3EPu8joJueb900-I9mNNzvR4FrdVrYD33O4e-Do7nEuw2VbbRuyYmq-8e/s1600/Turkey%20436.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGbsrZi_QGYxsBdaDycV7hdEK1tyBRMB_LaNsN54RY9-J6BUzaAB4ummGEuFAC5J2ijxOcMP1YW9fzymjM6B7QDFDNmZJtSHx-5mGFTQY-E_DKept1DcOzV02Wjyj0rCq1RaV3EPu8joJueb900-I9mNNzvR4FrdVrYD33O4e-Do7nEuw2VbbRuyYmq-8e/s320/Turkey%20436.JPG" width="320"></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i>The ferocious wildfires in Maui have destroyed most of Lahaina, but miraculously, the Maria Lanakila Church remains standing. This event reminds me of how Mary's House was spared during a 2006 fire in Ephesus that wiped out 1,200 hectares of forest but stopped just meters away from Mary's House. </i></p><p><i>I'm sharing my writeup as a testament of Mary's greatness. This is part of MAGNIFICAT: MAMA MARY'S PILGRIM SITES, a book I edited. The publisher Anvil has some copies online, and you can also find it in ebook form (Kindle). </i></p><p><i>Mother Mary, pray for us!</i></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOgu8JqKxzEtZ8DkbQ8R0s5BbmtSz5ziWCsiuYh92hW_10bZEbAJyzMUQiyhrRnyE_qgE4S5iAkXmpszzd4MLEevEBkx7v-9x1CeE3hauoCTRBScs8VW42SldaNYxYxm9ns6jPXWGeM8UW-jD4n9ZOXXTJWtqmsXb1DU2DYYOsDsTTw5TKAo5cx9CdFr9H/s3063/Magnificat.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3063" data-original-width="1987" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOgu8JqKxzEtZ8DkbQ8R0s5BbmtSz5ziWCsiuYh92hW_10bZEbAJyzMUQiyhrRnyE_qgE4S5iAkXmpszzd4MLEevEBkx7v-9x1CeE3hauoCTRBScs8VW42SldaNYxYxm9ns6jPXWGeM8UW-jD4n9ZOXXTJWtqmsXb1DU2DYYOsDsTTw5TKAo5cx9CdFr9H/s320/Magnificat.jpg" width="208"></a></div><p><br></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">FINDING PEACE IN MARY’S HOUSE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Cecilia
Manguerra Brainard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IN 2006, my husband and I were on a
cruise to the Baltic. We had a one-day stop in the port of Kusadasi, Turkey and
we took a day tour to Ephesus, where we saw the ruins of this great Roman city.
We also visited the Basilica of St. John, where the traditional tomb of St.
John’s was located under the central dome. Although now in ruins, the Basilica
made me understand that this site was where John the Beloved and Mother Mary
had settled, after Christ’s Crucifixion. I recalled how Christ had entrusted
Mary to John, and John to Mary, with His words: “Behold your mother. Woman
behold your son.”</span></p><p></p></blockquote><span></span><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/08/magnificat-marys-house-in-ephesus-turkey.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-4106473360307942332023-08-12T12:52:00.005-07:002023-08-15T09:40:28.991-07:00Magnificat - Lahaina's Maria Lanakila Catholic Church Survived Maui Fires<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4j73J3LHEYFrga5ArTjwMuYhqeEgeZxX0OkMqT_oZQrhtfw5kN1I53ANb0jVYnL0af0fSGepfcYkZDeIiiBMNSZ74BaeTFucX_ayGMRUg4PCeN6kfCIlAFWbHSpuzWw7XTfWknXbEsVb7BuNH6mQq0c1yQ1HpRV_Y_Lgu8nPLBmpysUcGMdF3iCi6FG9/s510/Lahaina.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="287" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid4j73J3LHEYFrga5ArTjwMuYhqeEgeZxX0OkMqT_oZQrhtfw5kN1I53ANb0jVYnL0af0fSGepfcYkZDeIiiBMNSZ74BaeTFucX_ayGMRUg4PCeN6kfCIlAFWbHSpuzWw7XTfWknXbEsVb7BuNH6mQq0c1yQ1HpRV_Y_Lgu8nPLBmpysUcGMdF3iCi6FG9/s320/Lahaina.jpg" width="180"></a> <div><br></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><i>Maria Lanakila Catholic Church in Lahaina remains standing following horrific wildfires. Some are calling its saving an "act of God.</i>" from New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/12/historic-lahaina-church-stands-miraculously-untouched-by-maui-wildfires/">https://nypost.com/2023/08/12/historic-lahaina-church-stands-miraculously-untouched-by-maui-wildfires/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I am happy to share the news that Lahaina's Maria Lanakila Catholic Church, Maui, Hawaii seems to have survived the recent wildfires. </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div>Maria Lanakila is a Marian Site featured in the book I edited, MAGNIFICAT: MAMA MARY'S PILGRIM SITES (Anvil 2012; copies available in Anvil's online site, and also via Kindle), which has an imprimatur by then Archibishop of Manila, Luis Antonio Tagle. I am sharing the article by Millicent Dypiangco about Maria Lanakila, indeed a place where prayers are heard and answered. </div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;">*** </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgifpNQ__xe3P22pxEgRByPY5fwcWneLIcenOPox1KSaSq_oLLKlAUX7JxgZz5oaPIXqYjm6dM1DxcfaD-TTI5ynr8VX8Hj15aKjSchaurdLmErD0e3dVXc2PpL5RyFzlHs9EOMR6Cr2i43QOZszmB2wwYBU5vy14utO1Wndm49IKtyV6Afnq_utkOPfPWc/s874/Magnificatcover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="572" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgifpNQ__xe3P22pxEgRByPY5fwcWneLIcenOPox1KSaSq_oLLKlAUX7JxgZz5oaPIXqYjm6dM1DxcfaD-TTI5ynr8VX8Hj15aKjSchaurdLmErD0e3dVXc2PpL5RyFzlHs9EOMR6Cr2i43QOZszmB2wwYBU5vy14utO1Wndm49IKtyV6Afnq_utkOPfPWc/s320/Magnificatcover.jpg" width="209"></a></div><br><div><br><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">AT MARIA LANAKILA, OUR PRAYERS WERE
HEARD AND ANSWERED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Millicent
Dypiangco</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">THE
IMPACT of my visit to the Marian site of Maria Lanakila did not occur in one
instance. There were no apparitions of the Virgin that appeared to me, nor were
there dramatic changes within me at any given moment during our visit. Rather,
I would call the influence of this site as prompting a perpetual transformation
that continues to exert its power over me to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My
first visit to Maria Lanakila was in January 2001. It was actually my very
first visit to Hawai’i, to the island of Maui, taken on a family trip with my
husband and his parents and youngest brother. It would be the first of many
future family trips taken with the Dypiangco clan. I say “clan” because we have
now grown to be a family of sixteen…who make it a point to go on a family
vacation every other year…together…thanks to Mom and Dad. Prompted by the idea
to finally visit what many call “paradise,” I for one was very excited to visit
Hawai’i, and to finally go on the real honeymoon that Joe and I never went on
after our wedding eleven years prior…complete with my husband’s parents at
that! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">As
I do on my vacations, I try not to have any expectations of the place so that I
may be pleasantly surprised at each turn. Pleasantly surprised was exactly what
I was at each spot we visited. I experienced the peace and serenity of Hawai’i,
particularly the island of Maui, which swept me right off my feet and made me
want to linger, savor, and soak in every single experience. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">From
the very first greeting of Aloha, something stirred in me and I knew that this place
was going to be special. I think that the first impression of this place for me
was its simplicity, and how for me, felt as if I had finally gotten what I have
been craving for so many years. The simplicity and purity of the island melted
away all the stress from my body. I felt it from that first day, that first
meal of kalua pork, as I sat gazing at the blue Pacific from the shores of
Lahaina Village. I think that the only thing that broke that pattern was the
row of hotels that lined Kanapali where we opted to stay. However, it only
acted as our home base as we explored everything else that Maui had to offer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Of
course, we could not go on a vacation without spending time at mass on Sunday.
And it was our practice to attend mass that led us to Maria Lanakila. Maria
Lanakila stood in its simplicity in the residential area of Lahaina. Its
architecture reflected the ease and purity of what surrounded it. It drew me
in. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Upon
entering this little church, I immediately felt at peace. My frame of mind had
totally changed. My mind was quieted as I sat in the pew and reflected before,
during, and after the mass. The hectic life that I lived in Los Angeles was
forgotten and I gave thanks. Thanks for the opportunity to finally be here in
“paradise,” thanks for the family who had accompanied me, thanks for my health,
my home, my livelihood. I was grateful for many things and I made sure that I
said those prayers of gratitude. Most especially, I prayed for the one thing
that weighed very heavily in my heart. I prayed for a child. Despite all the
blessings that I have received, I knew that there remained an emptiness in me.
And that emptiness was to bear a child, to become a mother, and to love like I
have not loved before. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span></span></p></div><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/08/magnificat-lahainas-maria-lanakila.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-51689569981052563782023-08-09T11:58:00.005-07:002023-08-09T12:30:22.483-07:00Old Photographs 4 - Cecilia Brainard - 6-7 Years Old<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcB7Hcl5q65NqllnWEFGiD-Z22-Yl9olfDTXvUwroqqyes0wKxdWISdYOuMMangG2_sZShiWMelv0oZ0qma05ZQcxipSHp9mYMIZgGdpVzPobJ7Cml5O54vBW7onGaPgTmats4tx29OI3MQgXnk7ZckiDTZLkR9eIt9PS8gHsbbgg39MvhACnnNm3QMI1j/s1600/papa2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcB7Hcl5q65NqllnWEFGiD-Z22-Yl9olfDTXvUwroqqyes0wKxdWISdYOuMMangG2_sZShiWMelv0oZ0qma05ZQcxipSHp9mYMIZgGdpVzPobJ7Cml5O54vBW7onGaPgTmats4tx29OI3MQgXnk7ZckiDTZLkR9eIt9PS8gHsbbgg39MvhACnnNm3QMI1j/s320/papa2.jpg" width="243"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span> My childhood seemed to have stretched out longer than human time. Those childhood memories have a dreamlike quality. I have memories of the time when I was perhaps three, perhaps younger. I even have an infant memory, although I am not sure if this is a true memory, of me laying on the bed and a big dog entering the room and everyone getting excited. I remember being with my Yaya Yvonne in the second floor of our house in Capitolio and looking down at a group of carolers singing outside our gate. My Yaya Yvonne was the one who taught me to eat green onions. Yaya Yvonne got into trouble for stealing and I was told she ended up in jail - a point that my older sister used to rib me about -- "Your yaya ended up in jail."</span></div></blockquote><p> <span></span></p><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/08/old-photographs-4-cecilia-brainard-7.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-88707392801649323322023-07-31T06:09:00.008-07:002023-08-09T11:59:54.070-07:00Old Photographs 3 - Cecilia Brainard 5-6 years old<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcIXJAhacr0O7TyaGsqrWWd8tmZFuxB443GnFGueKd8oB-5uJdoeRI0udo4RXirph_LAydFOmbAJecCiWWI2gFshWHTB1WRlcj4ERvhTHEneqabHUQtmpd80PyNLhBUgYBGejnrw6pg4FXheInO-zCBjXcO5Y2H2bE_4vD8i-cWBN2wzTwN75WB9SJ5iVy/s1107/Ceciliachildpic2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1107" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcIXJAhacr0O7TyaGsqrWWd8tmZFuxB443GnFGueKd8oB-5uJdoeRI0udo4RXirph_LAydFOmbAJecCiWWI2gFshWHTB1WRlcj4ERvhTHEneqabHUQtmpd80PyNLhBUgYBGejnrw6pg4FXheInO-zCBjXcO5Y2H2bE_4vD8i-cWBN2wzTwN75WB9SJ5iVy/s320/Ceciliachildpic2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Here are more old photos. I was around 5 or 6 years old in these pictures. I just acquired the color photo from a nephew. I think this was taken near Manila de Bay. During our summer vacations, we used to visit Manila, stay in our place in Georgia Street, Malate, and from there, we kids used to walk to the Bay. We used to actually swim in the water; you can see people swimming in this photo. The water was pristine then. I learned how to float on my back for the first time in that Bay. I remember my brother holding me up as I lay on the water, and then he let go and I was surprised that I was still floating.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYibN2Y87QZarXnLSjklYMieV-KI5HDOd8640H4Y6QI4SkTEORTMof1tIGTKyHr3A6mgFNem7L4Iwjg0zMsszjq2RpHAi3VHr1IHEIYCIFkZpKL-Bx7XiXvj9AP8ImhDANoQtx5E0jVqjSbfSelmRJyhoV_p45whmvPcAwmaa_6KPyqkwinzvfjjg0iTGs/s1496/orchidszz2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1452" data-original-width="1496" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYibN2Y87QZarXnLSjklYMieV-KI5HDOd8640H4Y6QI4SkTEORTMof1tIGTKyHr3A6mgFNem7L4Iwjg0zMsszjq2RpHAi3VHr1IHEIYCIFkZpKL-Bx7XiXvj9AP8ImhDANoQtx5E0jVqjSbfSelmRJyhoV_p45whmvPcAwmaa_6KPyqkwinzvfjjg0iTGs/s320/orchidszz2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The second photo shows me playing the piano at a recital. Even though my mother was an accomplished pianist, she never taught us. It was a young man named Bokoy who gave us lessons. Papa used to drop us off at his home, in the Parian Old Cebu, if I recall right. I was not really good at it, nor was I interested, so I only remember one recital -- this one --- in which I played Skating on the Lake and Volga Boat Song. I can imagine my mother, who was playing piano from the time she was a child, listening to us and thinking, "Oh, dear, this is not for them."</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitumXUAcD6yruowp2FAY-QecDvchWYWzlPuO5SF0ZL6pnr890iORCqifBJR4WBzlJejas_8RZrOl1v_4ss2o-EUQGOEGOkTpVtgtCzeXXxNcsYcjjiVibfF1XEZg2Xqv_G4GJ0JdHvCAxt0g8U1KUgIKwBRaipeBcl2edeuRa0gaqfJ7bmJlxrLtsRGYlx/s1456/ceciliapianov2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="697" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitumXUAcD6yruowp2FAY-QecDvchWYWzlPuO5SF0ZL6pnr890iORCqifBJR4WBzlJejas_8RZrOl1v_4ss2o-EUQGOEGOkTpVtgtCzeXXxNcsYcjjiVibfF1XEZg2Xqv_G4GJ0JdHvCAxt0g8U1KUgIKwBRaipeBcl2edeuRa0gaqfJ7bmJlxrLtsRGYlx/s320/ceciliapianov2.jpg" width="153" /></a></div></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The third photo shows me and my sister in our St. Theresa's College uniform. Our skirt was navy blue; our long-sleeved blouse was white. We had a blue ribbon and we should have had a badge (pin) in the middle of the bow. I don't know why we didn't have the badges on. We are posing in front of some of my mother's orchids. She had a collection that hung on a walkway arbor.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">This is all for now. Stay tuned for more old photographs.</div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div>Read also</div><div><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/old-photographs-baby-pictures-of.html">Old Photographs 1 - Baby Pictures of Cecilia Brainard</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/old-photographs-1-cecilia-brainard.html">Old Photographs 2 - Cecilia Brainard "Happy Days by the Sea"</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/old-photographs-3-cecilia-brainard-draft.html">Old Photographs 3 - Cecilia Brainard 5-6 years old</a></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/08/old-photographs-4-cecilia-brainard-7.html">Old Photographs 4 - Cecilia Brainard 7 years old </a></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">Tags: old photographs, old photos, vintage photos </blockquote><p></p><br /><br />Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-17917670790328416782023-07-25T16:42:00.001-07:002023-07-25T16:42:27.566-07:00Guest Blogger: Paulino Lim Jr ~ Memory of a Lost Friend <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp2gIaTeyI6jszRMysycdNOWbTm5d-5TH8dcwWLFE8M0dDSLOnTPuSJrR7VigxTh9tXJhxEyzxBHhOQW9OY4URf523N9Tr1Hm2MZ1C25zzxRTHPNZNx8JSIoZ5u7L41awic7lOc9FD0VJ_Mx2n3y_CtuBJ0-ffEXVcI5rCcNKoWvzhDPcswYes0GHEe0HY/s1134/PaulCropped2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="1134" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp2gIaTeyI6jszRMysycdNOWbTm5d-5TH8dcwWLFE8M0dDSLOnTPuSJrR7VigxTh9tXJhxEyzxBHhOQW9OY4URf523N9Tr1Hm2MZ1C25zzxRTHPNZNx8JSIoZ5u7L41awic7lOc9FD0VJ_Mx2n3y_CtuBJ0-ffEXVcI5rCcNKoWvzhDPcswYes0GHEe0HY/s320/PaulCropped2.png" width="320"></a></div><i><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><i><br></i><i> My Guest Blogger is Dr. Paulino Lim Jr (left in the picture; Lupo Grageda is beside him). </i><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Paulino Lim Jr. is a professor emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach.</i></div></blockquote></i><div><i><br></i></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><i>He is a recipient of the 2016 Presidential Award for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas—for his fiction and scholarly essays that are constructive criticisms of the political, social, and religious problems in the Philippines. Also in 2016, his alma mater, the University of Santo Tomas, conferred upon him a lifetime achievement honor—the Parangal Hagbong Award—for significant contributions to Philippine literature. His latest book, Spots of Time: A Memoir of a Mind, was nominated for the Best Book of Nonfiction Prose in English, 38th Philippine National Book Awards (2018).</i></div></blockquote><div><i><br></i></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><i>He is the author of a scholarly monograph on Byron, dramas, three anthologies, a quartet of political novels, and the novel Death of the English Zen Professor.</i></div></blockquote><div><i><br></i></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><p style="text-align: left;"><i>He shares with us his personal essay "Memory of a Lost Friend" which appears in his blog: https://paulinolimjr.blogspot.com/</i></p></div></blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwMSKk4_GChk2YomNsgmxJAKkyGrXEeAt1I2Aehh8b_TRN3DL4yQrvT0wX786mt9SGxfMeAqRC7zLFqeXnJ63FgkeFHmC8KNiEyDY5XtCzE9c59B67o8mH615tEFQvXbPZ26z6QIOrvLvcP8Ho1rd9X6ZxLlbYBZcI4fzwujZistwoHX7Tx3JrERDO3nv/s875/butterflies3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="875" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwMSKk4_GChk2YomNsgmxJAKkyGrXEeAt1I2Aehh8b_TRN3DL4yQrvT0wX786mt9SGxfMeAqRC7zLFqeXnJ63FgkeFHmC8KNiEyDY5XtCzE9c59B67o8mH615tEFQvXbPZ26z6QIOrvLvcP8Ho1rd9X6ZxLlbYBZcI4fzwujZistwoHX7Tx3JrERDO3nv/s320/butterflies3.jpg" width="320"></a></div><p><br></p></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>MEMORY OF A LOST FRIEND</b></h2></div><div>How do you relate to someone who is no longer with us – as the saying goes – but whose voice we still hear and whose face we still see in our dreams? Was the person a dear friend, a lover you broke up with, or a spouse you divorced?</div></blockquote><span></span><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/guest-blogger-paulino-lim-jr-memory-of.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-26396107871944590542023-07-25T15:12:00.012-07:002023-08-09T12:01:07.621-07:00Old Photographs 2 - Cecilia Brainard - Happy Days by the Sea<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_d1wHsqRg9z4TYSzYvgzjQAWx9Zn5P7yvWimQjCPYnzmJO7DuReljYsdojLVmeOaB1gfdWvK4ll-vdcyCZS36OxF86RBq205bqoBuqyKa365fqDn37Ncel1KxrRNxsTgrOsAvxJDipHalAgEdcqRX-cZTVi-sSJK9_UvIysVpjL_qRMguqJYM45rbq7D0/s3600/swim.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2162" data-original-width="3600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_d1wHsqRg9z4TYSzYvgzjQAWx9Zn5P7yvWimQjCPYnzmJO7DuReljYsdojLVmeOaB1gfdWvK4ll-vdcyCZS36OxF86RBq205bqoBuqyKa365fqDn37Ncel1KxrRNxsTgrOsAvxJDipHalAgEdcqRX-cZTVi-sSJK9_UvIysVpjL_qRMguqJYM45rbq7D0/w400-h240/swim.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLdleAUmkojaLRBbZyHi9X6hxkZzizSImxx3M5XZvw4qVbLD-1FFp3PNyhExYmySl08NuCSUk-SWgZq-_NRTbdexbDdREwoh9GGhot0eURVM90qT5s49wLwWY3SphKuTFyF362rCw21JKg5ZXbRmE_Ky2eGyGKpw7Fy3dhg2XQ6l_KP6ny29iuSBRKhWc/s3900/siblingszzz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2657" data-original-width="3900" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLdleAUmkojaLRBbZyHi9X6hxkZzizSImxx3M5XZvw4qVbLD-1FFp3PNyhExYmySl08NuCSUk-SWgZq-_NRTbdexbDdREwoh9GGhot0eURVM90qT5s49wLwWY3SphKuTFyF362rCw21JKg5ZXbRmE_Ky2eGyGKpw7Fy3dhg2XQ6l_KP6ny29iuSBRKhWc/w400-h272/siblingszzz.jpg" width="400"></a></div><p> <b>HAPPY DAYS BY THE SEA</b></p><p>As I mentioned, I just have a handful of photos from when I was a baby and child. This was during the time when people used real cameras, with real film, that had to be developed and printed. The paper used were not necessarily archival and the pictures disintegrated; and most of the time, the rolled up negatives got lost or were destroyed. </p><p>Here is one photo I found of me at around 4 years old. I'm with my mother, father, and older sibling. We are bathing in the sea, and this could have been in Talisay or Liloan beaches which we frequented on Sundays. I suspect this photo may have been taken in Liloan because there is land in the background. I don't recall Talisay beach looked like this.<span></span></p></blockquote><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/old-photographs-1-cecilia-brainard.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-64956762059015140232023-07-22T08:07:00.012-07:002023-08-09T12:01:27.277-07:00Old Photographs 1 - Baby Pictures of Cecilia Brainard <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiuUu1Vc_PChvlMrGpIQWWu10qpTHe3mZR_k9XR5slkro4-ohWAVsGUBMidpLrEA9eLYk0ymXEjv3P-dNFWTGy7RYmH3FT9-8ysxjnkHLDLJRjP5Y88BFfFd_1JPbW2ttDZ4_3DIwFM_1PPASqa66aT4Ihys0U-uo2uIc3M75cVvHv_-TwUd0oFkdIkgaz/s800/ceciliababypic2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="800" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiuUu1Vc_PChvlMrGpIQWWu10qpTHe3mZR_k9XR5slkro4-ohWAVsGUBMidpLrEA9eLYk0ymXEjv3P-dNFWTGy7RYmH3FT9-8ysxjnkHLDLJRjP5Y88BFfFd_1JPbW2ttDZ4_3DIwFM_1PPASqa66aT4Ihys0U-uo2uIc3M75cVvHv_-TwUd0oFkdIkgaz/s320/ceciliababypic2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":roh:" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought I would post pictures of me through the years, starting with my baby pictures -- 2 of them, that's all I have. </span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":roh:" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One shows me on the bed; this photo is in very poor condition (it looks almost like some kind of art). The other shows my siblings and me the baby. L-R: Vicky holding me, Ana holding a doll, and Junior or Jess holding a Brownie camera. In the back, you can catch a glimpse of my father's Buick. </span> </div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":roh:" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This photo was taken in 1947 (yes, so long ago!), and the <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>Philippines was still recovering from World War II. My parents and three siblings were in Mindanao for most of the war years; Papa was in the guerrilla movement. When war ended, and because Manila was almost totally destroyed, my father's house included, they decided to rebuild in Cebu, where Mama's family comes from. In this photo, we were still staying in a temporary house in Talisay and Papa must have been building our house near the Capitolio.</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS0sfZ7QLflf-woThyi7-AlBHiOR_s8RORNQ90TpCqweNz0ExOQvUI17_d6Ij8C5vgqJUjvAdfHdzdsw11GFE157_3CMih1cNtiq-soOJCx5VhUlbdhdu4HSFn79fwJuCeMdNFmTbT3UYdNigaISy2CsEjPUk6kRdozbIGRtI8AgO9b63-AKF_AQelNqnm/s2628/babypic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1887" data-original-width="2628" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS0sfZ7QLflf-woThyi7-AlBHiOR_s8RORNQ90TpCqweNz0ExOQvUI17_d6Ij8C5vgqJUjvAdfHdzdsw11GFE157_3CMih1cNtiq-soOJCx5VhUlbdhdu4HSFn79fwJuCeMdNFmTbT3UYdNigaISy2CsEjPUk6kRdozbIGRtI8AgO9b63-AKF_AQelNqnm/s320/babypic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Stay tuned for more pictures!</div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div>Read also</div><div><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/old-photographs-baby-pictures-of.html">Old Photographs 1 - Baby Pictures of Cecilia Brainard</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/old-photographs-1-cecilia-brainard.html">Old Photographs 2 - Cecilia Brainard "Happy Days by the Sea"</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/old-photographs-3-cecilia-brainard-draft.html">Old Photographs 3 - Cecilia Brainard 5-6 years old</a></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/08/old-photographs-4-cecilia-brainard-7.html">Old Photographs 4 - Cecilia Brainard 7 years old </a></p></blockquote><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Tags: vintage photos, old photos, family photographs </blockquote><p> </p><div><div class="x1n2onr6" id=":roi:" style="position: relative;"><div class="x1n2onr6" style="position: relative;"><div><div class="x1n2onr6" style="position: relative;"><div class="x1n2onr6" style="padding-top: 340px; position: relative;"><div class="x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x10l6tqk" style="inset: calc(0% + 0px) calc(0% + 0px) calc(0% + 0px) calc(50% + 1.01px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute;"><a aria-label="May be art" class="x1i10hfl x1qjc9v5 xjbqb8w xjqpnuy xa49m3k xqeqjp1 x2hbi6w x13fuv20 xu3j5b3 x1q0q8m5 x26u7qi x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xdl72j9 x2lah0s xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x2lwn1j xeuugli xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1ja2u2z x1t137rt x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m x1q0g3np x87ps6o x1lku1pv x1rg5ohu x1a2a7pz x1ey2m1c xds687c x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy x1pdlv7q" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161072252028554&set=pcb.10161072247733554&__cft__[0]=AZVpn1pav4o6Jgr2dluFvDrskAT9fD6_7buXm9RVLfWkES1y7GXvU2OTkwB_4kP4522-77sKobKPd_ptRU6QNXmDa0K5fOGFe_OB1OPRuWmdF9BlHhYMoMchy-O87oesNYw&__tn__=*bH-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> who forged the way for other Filipino and Filam writers: </span></b> </span></div></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>LIGAYA VICTORIO FRUTO</b>, whose story "The Fan" is part of the classic collection FICTION BY FILIPINOS IN AMERICA</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">BORN AND raised in the Philippines, Ligaya Victorio Fruto was trained as a teacher at the Philippine Normal School. While still in her teens, she began teaching and at the same time wrote stories which were published in leading national publications. <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>Because she taught in Baguio, her early stories were mostly about the people of the mountain region.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ligaya later worked for the pre-war Tribune, forerunner of the Manila Times. Of her contemporaries, Ligaya is one of the few who have not deviated from writing as her main profession. She has covered the field of journalism and creative writing in the Philippines and her adopted country, the U.S., in a range so wide it would be hard to contest. She has written two books, Yesterday and Other Stories and One Rainbow for the Duration, proceeds of which were donated to Philippine charities.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">She was married early but was widowed during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. She worked for the Philippine Foreign Service; it was in Honolulu that she met and married Larry Fruto, a Filipino, who, as a very young man, went to Hawaii on his own and finished his engineering education there. Her only son by her first marriage, Ramon V. Reyes, lives in the U.S. with his wife and children. Ligaya lived in Honolulu.</span></div></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzEOqnea6B9V2LcMOOG5bvS-OvXShRzSrearLOO5dP0WXJJGw7gHXuphJsmx2p5s9P5VyzSR_hFbed95WmwNgAoUGe8ejdPWsgOjahrSrr_G54Sb5u9TFlL9T-PcYWSPxLbMJAoZvFGdeuCKs2jUiAnmW4gjpWrMuM9pDRTKh6WWkuKD7KTsPOYs7-Te7/s2501/fictioncovfrthi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2501" data-original-width="1635" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzEOqnea6B9V2LcMOOG5bvS-OvXShRzSrearLOO5dP0WXJJGw7gHXuphJsmx2p5s9P5VyzSR_hFbed95WmwNgAoUGe8ejdPWsgOjahrSrr_G54Sb5u9TFlL9T-PcYWSPxLbMJAoZvFGdeuCKs2jUiAnmW4gjpWrMuM9pDRTKh6WWkuKD7KTsPOYs7-Te7/s320/fictioncovfrthi.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br /><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2015/08/philippine-literature-filipino-and.html">Philippine Literature: Filipino and Filipino American Writers </a></p><p><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/03/cecilia-brainard-remembers-filipino.html">Bienvenido N. Santos - Cecilia Brainard Remembers</a></p><p><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-honor-of-filipino-american-writer.html">N.V.M. Gonzalez - In Honor of Filipino American Writer</a></p><p><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2012/10/in-honor-of-filipino-writer-linda-ty.html">Linda Ty-Casper - In Honor of Filipino Writer</a></p><p><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2012/10/in-honor-of-filipino-american-writer.html">Paulino Lim Jr - In Honor of Filipino American Writer</a></p><p><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2012/09/gloria-f-rodriguez-editor-publisher.html">Gloria F. Rodriguez - Editor, Publisher </a></p>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-64175288973469520922023-07-04T10:22:00.003-07:002023-07-04T10:22:48.878-07:00To Leonard Ralph Casper from Bienvenido N. Santos<p><br></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqakQUhsAbkRpEBKtBgu5WZpWZSnwSxk8CfJMIVfSWA7Dh74oXYDtLGCfWYUkinQ56pmqn60lAamDEo7xKeJ2pSSoU3Z3ZFz2Gsp0KhLJTAwKKzdtu_vQEp6BMFR22NAXwaHkmsvHfcaY7zo3G1bCet1ZX9pNX7VtcuEo0-HAStZwsRZC7TUfYC0M0-Efp/s2601/Lencaspercofront.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2601" data-original-width="1733" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqakQUhsAbkRpEBKtBgu5WZpWZSnwSxk8CfJMIVfSWA7Dh74oXYDtLGCfWYUkinQ56pmqn60lAamDEo7xKeJ2pSSoU3Z3ZFz2Gsp0KhLJTAwKKzdtu_vQEp6BMFR22NAXwaHkmsvHfcaY7zo3G1bCet1ZX9pNX7VtcuEo0-HAStZwsRZC7TUfYC0M0-Efp/s320/Lencaspercofront.jpg" width="213"></a></div><br><p><br></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> July 6 is the 100th Birthday anniversary of Leonard Ralph Casper!</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAaMm1x4djM0vV3YKRkXheQkNg0hr-7uZORyErBwlDVkPvgJSTKOmn9eZk0m3zF8d6sdpZn189FucM3CYqBF0I_rfTXkpVc9DHrzIrvH5-3o024PZ0U3pW4jfuVbrnakQe5FJOYvrgDmhgPbxDRA8g0u9WeEiZszHJRL1ByLnBYqkr2Lgyl0Qt-6pu9P8/s1280/DSCF0227.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAaMm1x4djM0vV3YKRkXheQkNg0hr-7uZORyErBwlDVkPvgJSTKOmn9eZk0m3zF8d6sdpZn189FucM3CYqBF0I_rfTXkpVc9DHrzIrvH5-3o024PZ0U3pW4jfuVbrnakQe5FJOYvrgDmhgPbxDRA8g0u9WeEiZszHJRL1ByLnBYqkr2Lgyl0Qt-6pu9P8/s320/DSCF0227.JPG" width="320"></a></p></blockquote><br><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Excerpt from WILL YOU HAPPEN, PAST THE DARKNESS, THROUGH THE SILENCE: REMEMBERING LEONARD RALPH CASPER (Amazon <a class="x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1953716202">https://www.amazon.com/dp/1953716202</a> )</blockquote><br><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Letters from Bienvenido N. Santos --<br>Dear Len:<br>I’m grateful to you for your letter, that “reverend” portion which…about time someone like you opened my eyes to the truth: I have been luckier than most…</blockquote><br><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Did I say anything about the National Artist Award? I do not WANT it, Len. Not from that couple…if offered to me, I will turn it down…You are right, what more do I need?</blockquote><br><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">I’m not going to teach anymore after June 10…you can be sure, I’m going to write my heart out…because it is the only way…I know you will be busy but please, for my own selfish reasons, write to me… I’ll be in the Philippines not later than Nov 1...the priority in my life is my health. I spent two days in the hospital week, the usual emergency treatment for chest pains…fortunately everything turned out well…O, Len, you don’t know how helpful you have been. Thank you, dear friend. As ever, Ben. May 24, 1983.</blockquote> <br><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQk9czAvDGYA2VqwwsVCluxwtfSbGafSLE9fuMgO6TJCalnxPIpmErm2TPkDqXzf4OISNY2hv0vdmGE7cIqES0tsNZybNesWqAugtTDwXQnfeieTfaT55FTBYRHtvIht9ckiUwAl7VsrRegWQljsDHawFYer2m2mi40OqvgOG-DhkBzoHdHzGsEFInDOcz/s1750/Bienvenidosantos.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1369" data-original-width="1750" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQk9czAvDGYA2VqwwsVCluxwtfSbGafSLE9fuMgO6TJCalnxPIpmErm2TPkDqXzf4OISNY2hv0vdmGE7cIqES0tsNZybNesWqAugtTDwXQnfeieTfaT55FTBYRHtvIht9ckiUwAl7VsrRegWQljsDHawFYer2m2mi40OqvgOG-DhkBzoHdHzGsEFInDOcz/s320/Bienvenidosantos.jpg" width="320"></a></blockquote></blockquote><br><span></span><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/07/to-leonard-ralph-casper-from-bienvenido.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-18427672921342473482023-07-01T12:56:00.002-07:002023-07-01T12:56:27.037-07:00Leonard Ralph Casper Centennial Birthday Celebration<p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJycVANmH-1CkF28lE0DqZjeNFJ92umq080_ETntqjqErcyPRSqCgF2VvrqFCIKw8dpwpw3_RlQ01e5CVmqHQj_bTyL5ij9ACrqJzpYyJASwCbskWX7zoIjoG8yMiU1aPB5gMzx9AI0rRQ0TauiAL9ISfdMKRmm2ktYb_T1wgO_DWF1vbLIEPKcjS5Gz4P/s750/coverartdraftjpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="750" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJycVANmH-1CkF28lE0DqZjeNFJ92umq080_ETntqjqErcyPRSqCgF2VvrqFCIKw8dpwpw3_RlQ01e5CVmqHQj_bTyL5ij9ACrqJzpYyJASwCbskWX7zoIjoG8yMiU1aPB5gMzx9AI0rRQ0TauiAL9ISfdMKRmm2ktYb_T1wgO_DWF1vbLIEPKcjS5Gz4P/s320/coverartdraftjpg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">The Centennial birthday of LEONARD RALPH CASPER is this July 6. Please read this writeup <a href="https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/remembering-leonard-ralph-casper">"REMEMBERING LEONARD RALPH CASPER"</a> based on interviews of his wife, award-winning Filipina novelist Linda Ty-Casper. </div></div><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div></blockquote><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-L4Zp5GjuO5glsVzcJeE60oFIcJG-r58tooLc4McZDr1kd1lFcSBOVrRVvUozOec28pChkkaqybFV8hjUUVfsNWk4eyDsfev34GndrEud3KFA05Wwv7Mkjxe3VtRH5cMvRWorLDyZYEyMi-j_HI-miHznplcXWMAx9Njusn4t6B0YWIYG94TrOa5fGNWG/s2700/familyhires.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2055" data-original-width="2700" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-L4Zp5GjuO5glsVzcJeE60oFIcJG-r58tooLc4McZDr1kd1lFcSBOVrRVvUozOec28pChkkaqybFV8hjUUVfsNWk4eyDsfev34GndrEud3KFA05Wwv7Mkjxe3VtRH5cMvRWorLDyZYEyMi-j_HI-miHznplcXWMAx9Njusn4t6B0YWIYG94TrOa5fGNWG/s320/familyhires.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;">The collection of his letters, (which his wife calls his Memoirs) WILL YOU HAPPEN, PAST THE SILENCE, THROUGH THE DARK is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, among others.</div></div></blockquote><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpg9w07b4uRZ8GPEehzAFT65B0iNoWPVBlQ3WFGTsNjwRDcf7V3lptH4EDsvWxFwPoDn169DkcaXYRRVwY6d36y8d0T7hOvrgBJ0GwzM08yw2eHBgxmMqMtfrBWYPyKM4PLuikweG7bgo7N7dWVOJNdav9mgslD9f9X95XwFu_L7snbl4vQEZMWX3zSo3s/s2601/Lencaspercofront.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2601" data-original-width="1733" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpg9w07b4uRZ8GPEehzAFT65B0iNoWPVBlQ3WFGTsNjwRDcf7V3lptH4EDsvWxFwPoDn169DkcaXYRRVwY6d36y8d0T7hOvrgBJ0GwzM08yw2eHBgxmMqMtfrBWYPyKM4PLuikweG7bgo7N7dWVOJNdav9mgslD9f9X95XwFu_L7snbl4vQEZMWX3zSo3s/s320/Lencaspercofront.jpg" width="213" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">tags: Philippine literature, Filipino literature, Pinoyreads, pinoylit, Filipino books </div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Read also;</div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/11/interview-of-linda-ty-casper-i-did-this.html">Interview of Linda Ty-Casper</a></div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/09/book-review-for-linda-ty-caspers-book.html">Book Review of WILL YOU HAPPEN by Joel Pablo Salud</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-17343753091655849562023-06-26T12:00:00.001-07:002023-06-26T12:00:08.504-07:00Interview of Cecilia Brainard by Venice Rian Ong<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5NVhEddLwjx_9oO1H1e_np7K9uozZNmip3FQguy7WRxZqvAFSWl9_AL3pXzbsfpdZtjefDu7T5FpFpJAyjBOD9UZSscx4bAzV5FN5mPaVyLNZbrlReqE8-OV0tFDcXXPCfA2eNikT63TbEnseEAcG1j8KSAvKMIXODwELjQCq8CJ-zOTa-b4ocsFnVhe2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5NVhEddLwjx_9oO1H1e_np7K9uozZNmip3FQguy7WRxZqvAFSWl9_AL3pXzbsfpdZtjefDu7T5FpFpJAyjBOD9UZSscx4bAzV5FN5mPaVyLNZbrlReqE8-OV0tFDcXXPCfA2eNikT63TbEnseEAcG1j8KSAvKMIXODwELjQCq8CJ-zOTa-b4ocsFnVhe2=w400-h266" width="400"></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Photo taken at literary event hosted by Cebuano Studies Center last Feb. 2023</p><p></p></blockquote><p><br></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><b>Venice Rian Ong, 12th grader from Saint Lorenzo Ruiz school in Cebu interviewed me recently. I am sharing his questions and my answers.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">1<b>.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>When did you first
realize you wanted to be a writer? </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While I’d been writing since I was around 9 or 10 years old, I
didn’t fully realize I wanted or was meant to be a writer until I was a grown
woman with three young children.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let me elaborate: After my father died when I was nine, I began
writing him letters to update him of my life. These were my early writings.
When I was a teenager I began diary writing. I always enjoyed writing, but
after high school I thought I wanted to be an engineer. Later I thought I
wanted to be a film maker. It was this interest in film making that led me to
California where I went to film school at UCLA. I discovered that film making
is an expensive and highly collaborative venture. I did not pursue this career.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By this time I
was a young wife and mother and focused on taking care of my family. It was
during this time when stories would come into my head and I had to write them
down. I later took Creative Writing Classes at UCLA-Extension’s Writers Program
to learn the craft and business. Bit by bit I started to get stories published.
But it wasn’t until the children were in school and I looked for work and found
work as a fund raiser when I realized that I couldn’t work, take care of the
family, and write. I talked to my husband about this and he told me to do what
I wanted to do. I told the office that was ready to hire me that I couldn’t
take the job, and I decided then to be a writer and take care of my
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <span></span></o:p></span></p></blockquote><a href="https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/06/interview-of-cecilia-brainard-by-venice.html#more"></a>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-41244481280365576172023-06-24T12:17:00.003-07:002023-06-26T12:02:09.202-07:00My Book Donations to Philippine Libraries via Christian Acevedo<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil0SgV-BIPifrynFRxk_P-NCJYbBf_Op5gs6-xwc36xhzCoypSBRk7lbZrRAxv1hLx7J3cUBNXGYS6Ax_JsSMivW4-T0ipFFsY6HIf46WOV-EehhyT4dsDZ1eyaplVzGjvz0kqRHbzUDOI5fY_hA0dfgNvqHAO8IHMGXNjlrCb-iQVAUwzHxRYh6c3dFog/s2048/346112052_626922326000575_7045138975433794251_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil0SgV-BIPifrynFRxk_P-NCJYbBf_Op5gs6-xwc36xhzCoypSBRk7lbZrRAxv1hLx7J3cUBNXGYS6Ax_JsSMivW4-T0ipFFsY6HIf46WOV-EehhyT4dsDZ1eyaplVzGjvz0kqRHbzUDOI5fY_hA0dfgNvqHAO8IHMGXNjlrCb-iQVAUwzHxRYh6c3dFog/s320/346112052_626922326000575_7045138975433794251_n.jpg" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I donated books for Philippine Libraries via Christian George Acevedo, librarian/teacher/scholar at the Capiz Philippines Main Library. He distributed them to other librarians. Thank you, Christian, and best wishes to Philippine librarians.</div><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">The books I sent included most of my titles and more. Please visit my official site, <a href="http://ceciliabrainard.com">ceciliabrainard.com </a>for information about my books. </p></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWT2wlYDFURetR_gs-_o2-tpHVclckHGVDkwOurQw7ci8W3ijZ7yF8tPGBzIE7YXsMsci3M2WT7EdSLctQykJ73eiidTvCXscahEDv7yakZ13w4EdMYUmQJrZnXfF0P-9IWMEWQEXSXon9_nIT97GKch7YzvWiyHJfEqyy9r4oAETp1S_4ihQm6JcF78_/s2048/348954103_1510833329448395_624657925423013302_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWT2wlYDFURetR_gs-_o2-tpHVclckHGVDkwOurQw7ci8W3ijZ7yF8tPGBzIE7YXsMsci3M2WT7EdSLctQykJ73eiidTvCXscahEDv7yakZ13w4EdMYUmQJrZnXfF0P-9IWMEWQEXSXon9_nIT97GKch7YzvWiyHJfEqyy9r4oAETp1S_4ihQm6JcF78_/s320/348954103_1510833329448395_624657925423013302_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>#filipinobooks #filipinoliterature #filipinolibraries #capizlibraries<div><br /></div><div>Watch also: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLo3H-Pdy1g">THE CEBUANA IN THE WORLD: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Writing out of Cebu</a></div>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-80778684937618872222023-06-01T11:16:00.000-07:002023-06-01T11:16:00.609-07:00Belgium in April: Get Me to the Nunnery by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard in Positively Filipino<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPtrjgogzNu0hAAnm4SEOopYJVfmQEHtZiMrL5jHP4RLpNo0TQRzbCs_gWQA1FBEZV24su2CxrVYxOEef1PSMHJdnjhxPFS8o0BdJFmIgoUtlKUnCk1ppt3yCL2wmpHtWp4Z-kn8YkMTa25c9R1bVHVisnT6ujRSsm-JgKzZTSLX3czP31LRNun7Y9Fg/s1218/Hoorn2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="1196" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPtrjgogzNu0hAAnm4SEOopYJVfmQEHtZiMrL5jHP4RLpNo0TQRzbCs_gWQA1FBEZV24su2CxrVYxOEef1PSMHJdnjhxPFS8o0BdJFmIgoUtlKUnCk1ppt3yCL2wmpHtWp4Z-kn8YkMTa25c9R1bVHVisnT6ujRSsm-JgKzZTSLX3czP31LRNun7Y9Fg/s320/Hoorn2.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>I'm sharing the link to my recent article in Positively Filipino "Belgium in April: Get Me to the Nunnery." It is a travel article that involves my my search for the roots of my Belgian nuns at St. Theresa's College Cebu and Manila. Mother Marie Louise De Meester, the foundress of the ICM sisters, was born in Roesalare, Belgium and who became a nun at Ypres, Belgium, which I visited. </p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><a class="x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7" href="http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/belgium-in-april-get-me-to-the-nunnery">http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/belgium-in-april-get-me-to-the-nunnery</a></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">"In April, when the weather was cold, I found myself in Belgium. We were there on a Netherlands-Belgium river cruise because my husband wanted to catch the tulip bulbs in full bloom in Amsterdam. The bulbs are in bloom only for a few weeks from late March to early May. Our river cruise included stops in the Netherlands and Belgium, with a grand finale at the Keukenhof tulip garden in Lisse, southwest of Amsterdam..." Please read on in the PF site. </p></blockquote><p>#tags: travel, Europe, Belgium, low countries, ICM nuns. STC sister, religious nuns, Philippine education </p><p></p>Cecilia Manguerra Brainardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17168990584147721585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597817245101254838.post-76747922983481213142023-05-23T12:14:00.006-07:002023-05-23T19:16:39.937-07:00Thank you #ParisLitUp <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMbU2wkotC6Fds_OtIuvWPMbvSwsJyVfg6Jf7W9BDw86VQ0AS84RMrteeKetGzbAqrDEALRisIpge3cFMWTfEYRxLIbfYf8yZKeKMKnheXfbZQifKa3O-zijFObmkXCU_3Bm_icE4UQo3fCpfor7WAx49C9JKIxvaSowTcwA-J-dm7NOg8ZCF15IPt6A/s880/PXL_20230420_183918298.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="663" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMbU2wkotC6Fds_OtIuvWPMbvSwsJyVfg6Jf7W9BDw86VQ0AS84RMrteeKetGzbAqrDEALRisIpge3cFMWTfEYRxLIbfYf8yZKeKMKnheXfbZQifKa3O-zijFObmkXCU_3Bm_icE4UQo3fCpfor7WAx49C9JKIxvaSowTcwA-J-dm7NOg8ZCF15IPt6A/s320/PXL_20230420_183918298.jpg" width="241" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to the folks at Paris Lit Up / Culture Rapide for featuring me at their Thursday night reading last April 26, 2023. Thanks to Leah Soeiro Nentis and Ursula Wynne who greeted and took care of me.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">This literary group had also featured me last April 26, 2018. Thanks to Emily Ruck Keene, and Matthew. </p></blockquote><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOGMWboi9iqsJgPM6pZ17WdD3rsMKS9Odgklpmn5F6kGbIVyRyzNK7j2N56S-oEJhCvMKE23zMNVDUo0MWZBe_CKNzlrBij-4i8if7smicPBDFvzQkNneLoXJgg6hgUdzfVruj3CormGKZuQ6-WGGrm9fRg-c1r9iVasQxTx9cZcTYmrqSIrWJIH7BA/s1173/PXL_20230420_184133805.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1173" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOGMWboi9iqsJgPM6pZ17WdD3rsMKS9Odgklpmn5F6kGbIVyRyzNK7j2N56S-oEJhCvMKE23zMNVDUo0MWZBe_CKNzlrBij-4i8if7smicPBDFvzQkNneLoXJgg6hgUdzfVruj3CormGKZuQ6-WGGrm9fRg-c1r9iVasQxTx9cZcTYmrqSIrWJIH7BA/s320/PXL_20230420_184133805.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzE55Y9XL85NXf_3YjZe7A4A_V9_On8Fh27plUZzTbnHPJlx0IEnqYSJQjNV9xzUyhQLc_AkCGglxMdWrqIt46A65VbTy1E8IV21FEqkqgyee8BVSSHYKTjIO-7TbtiawfMunVWtlGQX_rcjUD9zY8W1946Zoa30AZHI-GiisLmTZSAwkFxwhRo4kQYA/s937/PXL_20230420_213327115.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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