The Wheel and Axle

As always, Ellen knows how to give the community the love and appreciation we deserve.

Bullying is a true epidemic, especially among young people. (It must be noted that it’s also an epidemic among adults, but young people are generally more vulnerable.)

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There is nothing more important to a parent than the happiness of the child.

And accepting one’s child fully is one source of true happiness.

Heartbreaking. Heartwarming.

I cry.

Here’s a little humorous – yet very on-point – lesson on homophobia, whether outright bigotry or else subtle microaggressions.

Just. Do. Not.

At some point in the staging of Ang Pag-Uusig, which is Jerry Respeto’s translated adaptation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, you will start to feel extremely uncomfortable at just how familiar everything was turning out to be. This, despite the fact that the play is set in 17th century Salem.

Yet this has always been the power of Miller’s masterpiece. Even though it was, on the surface, a tale of the 1692 Salem witch trials, it ultimately was a cautionary tale of communities being broken apart by paranoia and an authoritarian socio-political climate that allows bubbling hostilities to rise to the surface and bring out the worst in people.

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… and the horrors wrought upon her by man.

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Sometimes, satire really bites with hilarious (and yet sad) truths.

I can’t wait to finally visit Japan.

Also, that escalator example is quite the (unintended?) #shade for Pinoys. Hahaha.

Something absolutely inspiring for the week ahead.

Happy Monday!