Excerpt

By: Iris P. Concepcion

I got this from an entry written by Manuel Quezon III. Neat encapsulation of how to scribble when some segments accuse you (with misplaced haughtiness) that your mind is already too dimmed for spectacular words.

Good writing, above all else, writes about the truth, I surmised. I do not care if I have seen the butts of these confessors; when they write, I happily read.

Here's the intro :

"THE thrilling thing about the year…was that it was a time when significant segments of population all over the globe refused to be silent about the many things that were wrong with the world….And this gave the world a sense of hope that it has rarely had, a sense that where there is wrong, there are always people who will expose it and try to change it.”

That was Mark Kurlansky writing in his marvelous book 1968: The Year That Rocked the World."