By: Iris P. Concepcion
There is actually a very strong connection between the word "fight" and the famous hairstyle of our present President, inserted in the dictionary as "tonsure."
Tonsure is listed as "a clipping off or showing/shaving off of part or all of the hair of the head, done especially, formerly, as a signal of entrance into the clerical or monistic state."
I have read some trite remarks about this "small", shaved part of the head as being "unsmart", or "clumsy" but we all know by now, sensing in a hairy way in fact, that the whole world knows this mane cult is growing huger and huger and its members are burgeoning not like mushrooms but extremely lustrous flowers insisting to be venerated.
I even saw babies sporting this "miraculous" patent of standing up, reforming of selves via productive innovations and ending severe wrath's trajectory.
Laban is even a word. In the Bible, he is the father of Rachel and Leah (Gen 29:16).
I have seen guys fanning themselves inside the train ride, the fan being an accessory to the cooling times.
We do away with scurrilous things this moment, basking on the lushness of Nature, the marvelous words pouring out, the beauty of everyday life, the company of kindred spirits, the necessity of affinity these times.
I have seen the fun side to this present leadership as he showed his first paycheck with the corresponding voucher form just like an ordinary employee. We do away with rigidity and we come light, easy, floating and are rest assured that even top men work their butts' off to earn their keep. His staff and de-staffed members even holler the famous words upon seeing their boss' paycheck: "Paburger naman Sir!"
Everything is flowing, flowing. In a fowling, fawning world.