Happy Thanksgiving in a Challenging Year

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Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again

When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes

             -Claude Michel Schonberg, Les Miserables

It's still more than a month before 2025 ends. What a challenging, exhausting year it has been, both in our homeland and in our adopted country. An annus horribilis in the true sense when disasters upon disasters -- both natural and man-made -- piled up, leaving us questioning if there really is a thing called hope. Or redemption.

But in the past week alone, if you look at the stories in the US and the Philippines, there are glimmers of light beyond the proverbial dark tunnel. Consider: #MamdaniTrumpvisit #MarjorieTaylorGreene #Comeycase #Houseresignations #Trumpapprovalrating #DPWHarrests #HarryRoquerednotice #ZaldyCowarrant #Romualdez;iability #Batopendingarrest #anticorruptionrallies #antidynastybill to name a few.

Pebbles in a mountain of assaults to our sanity and well-being, true, but hopefully these are trends rather than glitches. Up to us to continue to sing the music of a people who will not be misled again. Huwag na tayo magpabudol. 

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. 

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