By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas
We are so short handed I am often the only one to lay the issue of this paper to bed. And considering my highly compromised condition health-wise, it is practically throwing the editorial welfare of this paper to the wind. Often, towards the end of an issue, I am practically unwell I could not even make out the words and sentences properly. But as they say, there is always a time to say, forget it. And that time is deadline time.
How did I come to this? There is always a time to be healthy and a time to be sick. The past many weeks have been my time to be sick. While I am strong enough to take care of myself, I am not strong enough to be competitive in the conduct of day-to-day work.
As to writing, I can hardly do things in a passable way. I could not make an article sound up-beat because I am not healthy enough to be so most of the time. Sadly, that is the truth of the matter we often laid issues of this paper to bed even if in a compromised state. And so far, as afar as I can make it out, readers are understanding enough. Why do I say that? We are still alive and am still alive by His grace.
Of course things are not easy as far as we in this corner are concerned. We always have to exert a lot of effort to make it to the end of the day or until an issue has been laid to bed. God knows how difficult it is to be dealing with a compromised thinking or typing where you have to go back to every line to make sure it is at least coherent.
And there are techniques to aid us. The ultimate tool is certainly prayer. In this respect I am blessed for having learned of yogic techniques, to come up with a prayer with the use of just a word or two or just a small phrase. These have the power to make you feel the essence of a prayer just by its/their vibration. And we are old enough to know what works and what does not.
So we keep going the way things had been going with our circumstances for the past number of years.
Will things become better? Certainly, and we are doing everything towards that end.**
