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eastwind journals September 5, 2024, Archives tr432 By Bernie V. Lopez, eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com Share this article with friends via blog link – https://eastwindjournals.com/2024/09/05/a-strange-kind-of-love-affair-56/ Author’s note. This story was inspired by actual events during my coverage as a journalist of the Philippine tourism industry circa late 90s. Hans was a South African mercenary who served in AfricaContinue reading “A Strange Kind of Love Affair (#56)”

An Indian guru I met in Amsterdam told me that it is easier to find others than to find yourself. Your inner self is a mystery to you. So, the key in understanding yourself is to understand others. If you search your soul, you find darkness and void. You are confused. But if you searchContinue reading “Finding Yourself (#55)”

These are all true stories or inspired by true stories. Story No. 1.  This was related to me by a nurse in a hospital in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines. As Yolanda, the super-storm of the millennium, sent a tsunami five kilometer deep into the interior of Tacloban City, a family clung to the top ofContinue reading “Light and Darkness (#54)”

Inspired by true events. Clara, obsessed with the feel of danger, started as a teenage ‘mule’ or a drug courier for the powerful Columbian cartel Antioquia. Young female teenagers were the perfect cover for transporting large quantities of cocaine to the US. She caught the attention of the big boss Carlo after she smuggled $56Continue reading “Cocaine Queen (#53)”

On Dec. 28, 2016, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) published an article which gives a comprehensive history of the 70-year-old Mediatrix issue, entitled The Curious Case of the Lipa Apparitions. This response aims to fill in gaps in that article and to correct some allegations inimical to the Blessed Virgin. (This is a blogsite copyContinue reading “Response to CNA, RE- Mediatrix Controversy”

Somewhere in Ermita, Manila. The long lemon-colored limo screeches to a halt. A 45-year-old tall gaunt fellow, wearing a T-shirt saying “I’m Billionaire Ben”, gets out and heads for the Burger Beast, which he owns. He randomly checks out his burger branches. The waitress does not recognize him. He orders “a burger to go, noContinue reading “The Billionaire and the Beggar (#52)”

I met Isko in Vancouver when her grandniece Caroline invited me for a visit. It was my chance to meet the Filipino community there. Isko was a bachelor at the age of 82. He was a gardener for three generations of an Irish family. He outlived the first and second generations and was now workingContinue reading “The Gardener (#51)”

Alphonsus Ohnheiser puts it eloquently, “God will not be mocked” by satanic forces. The Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart) Basilica shines during a massive Paris power outage, a message from the Lord. “This church was miraculously spared during WWII bombing and has always had Perpetual Eucharistic adoration since it’s consecration in 1919. France is the landContinue reading ““God will not be mocked.””

Author’s Note. As a fellow journalist, I was invited to Japan by my friends Hiro Ainoda, a human rights lawyer, and Sakai Ito, a television documentary producer (not their real names, to protect their privacy). At that time, I wrote editorials for the Inquirer and produced Youtube documentaries. Through them, I learned about the bitter-sweetContinue reading “Lives of OFWs in Japan”

NAMES AND PLACES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF OFWs. WE ACCEPT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OFWs (ONLY TRUE STORIES), IN ENGLISH OR FILIPINO (WE WILL TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH FOR YOU.) DO NOT WORRY IF YOU ARE NOT A GOOD WRITER. WE WILL REFINE AND EDIT YOUR STORIES FOR YOU. FOR NOW, WE ONLY HAVEContinue reading “True OFW Stories vol.2 *The Japanese Messiah *Lives of Japanese OFWs”