COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACESierra Madre, mother mountainBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:16 AM September 30, 2022The Spaniards called her Mother mountain, this vast range stretching down the northeastern flank of the island of Luzon like the heaving backs of massive whales. Through the years, the trees and slopes of the Sierra Madre, acting like giant windbreaks, broke the backs of tropical...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACERemembering (2): Hearken to the 11,103+By: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM September 23, 2022These days, I ponder the freedom we had lost 50 years ago and the struggle to win it back. I express my profound gratitude to those who fought and perished in the night. Eternal rest be yours in the valley of the brave.ADVERTISEMENTLast Wednesday, Sept. 21, was the 50th...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACERemembering (1): Las Navas massacreBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM September 16, 2022Marela looked around and saw an infant who had been grabbed by an SF man and then flung to the ground. She tried to nurse the crying baby, whose elder sister Elsa came and told Marela to put the baby down for it was already dying.” —from “The Las Navas Incident: A Village Weeps for Its Dead as the Government Prepares for Its Defense” by Roberto Z. Coloma (WHO Magazine, Dec....

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEReinventing teaching of reading and writingBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM September 09, 2022Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.” (Anonymous)ADVERTISEMENTNational Teachers’ Month began on Monday, Sept. 5, and ends on Oct. 5, which is National Teachers’ Day and World Teachers’ Day. Those directly connected to schools—teachers, students,...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACESalt in our tears and other thoughtsBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:11 AM September 02, 2022Pan de sal, the Filipino breakfast and merienda staple—with palaman or without—was the first to pop up in my mind. (Sal is Spanish for salt.) Next was the biblical saying on becoming “the salt of the earth” and what that entailed. Then the saying “back to the salt mines.”ADVERTISEMENTTroubled...

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