Saturday, September 11, 2010

No More Ondoy Please!

It's almost a year since typhoon Ondoy, the worst tropical typhoon depression to hit in recent years, struck Metro Manila.  It is still vivid in my mind how my husband Jun and daughter Nina were stranded in North Luzon Expressway and Ateneo, respectively.  How I almost submerged my father's vehicle when I fetched my other daughter, Kara, from school thinking that it was high enough to pass the flooded street near her school.  There is one song that figure prominently in my mind that encapsulates our worst fear should we continue to abuse the environment, Asin's Masdan Mo Ang Kapaligiran.  This song, which debuted in 1976, seemed very ahead of its time then.  It was Asin's social commentary on their experiences living in Mindanao with illegal logging happening so rampant.


If we continue to squander our natural resources, is it really possible that we will only be able to breathe clean
 air when we are in God's embrace?

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