Ma. Lourdes N. Tiquia
A day after Christmas, the birth of Jesus, we find Filipinos in two shades of life: ebullient with karaokes and loud music pervading in the metropolis, and kids running after their godparents; lugubrious, longing for departed ones who lost the spark after typhoons Urduja, Vinta and the tragedy of the Davao City mall, which brought tragedy closer to the home of PRRD. The land of the promise, Mindanao, became the center of these tragedies, and in a country where 98 percent of Filipinos are Catholics, we often attribute negativities to such occurrences. Let us not.