times we are [not] a'changin'

Returning to the Philippines on an election year is always chaotic and discombobulating.

Archipelago of colors, one strong weave. 
Image courtesy of Haim Chicken

This time a man proud to be known as the Donald Trump of the East may yet reign supreme.

Yet another halfling with pretensions to manliness and personal power runs a close second.

In the wake of Mother's Day Facebook is flooded by such ugliness.

Disappointment overwhelms in the difficulty to reconcile beloved homeland with reviled behavior.

O Pinas kong mahal, so tortured by this whole convoluted affair.