LSD-2 Letters-to-Editors

Readers thank us
for this 'Digest’

. “NAMASTE! The Light­Share Digest is worth ev­ery centavo that I paid for a copy. It has kept my mind soul-searching as I ‘digest’ it. -- FRANCIS COMENDADOR Board of Liquidators, Office of the President, Malacañang, Manila . [Exactly what we want the Di­gest to do – to uplift, and to cause soul-searching (going deep within) to re-member our love essence, our oneness. Thank God for its effect on you! --Editors] -o0o- . I LIKED the LightShare Di­gest , first issue. I am now read­ing a copy in the ASI Lib­rary. Enjoy! I’ll buy my own copy tomorrow. I had been puzzled earlier on the differences between per­ception and reality. Thanks. Now I am confused which of my two eyes to believe. Ang galing n’yo talaga! . --PROF. HANSEL GENETA St. Scholastica’s College Malate, Manila -o0o- . [Thanks for “texting” this letter to us. Ang galing talaga natin! As a member of the lightshare e-group, you are part of this synergism community! -- Ed.] -o0o- THANKS for producing such a wonderful publica­tion as LightShare Digest. I hope the second issue will be at least half as good as the first, which I bought at the U.P. Shopping Center. Would you please publish a complete list of outlets in your next issue? Do you have provincial outlets? . I am a member of the LightShare e-group, and I am interested how can one apply for membership in SanibLakas Foundation it­self, that created the group. Many authors of the arti­cles in the maiden issue were id­entified as members of the foundation and I want to be associated also with these distinguished persons. How can I qualify to be among them? I want to know more about your organization. How can I become a part formally of the "Synergism Community" mentioned on the cover of that first issue? --LEMUEL DIZON R. Fernandez Enterprises, Dagupan City -o0o- .

[Being a member of the Light­Share e-group, as one of the more active members at that, you are already part of the “Synergism Community” we refer to on the cover. In fact we carry some of your post­ings in this issue.The Light­Share e-Mail List Group, as well as the Lambat-Liwanag Network for Empowering Pa­radigms, the Katipunang Daki­Lahi para sa Pamban­sang Pagsasanib-lakas, the Advo­cates for Cooperative Educ­ation for Synergism (ACES), Sanib-lakas ng Inang Kalika­san (SALIKA), Sanib-Sining Movement for Synaesthetics, Consumers Coalition for Truth­ful Information (CCTI), and all other organizations and insti­tu­tions convened and initiated by the SanibLakas ng Taong­bayan.Foundation.make up Pa­ma­yanang SanibLakas. How one can become and how one can re­tain membership in the Foundation itself will be explained in a subsequent issue of this book magazine. This has been a FAQ — a fre­quently asked question. About outlets outside Manila, our out­let nearest to Dagupan is Cid Trading along Session Rd., Baguio City, and Maryknoll Ecological Sanctu­ary, also in Baguio. You may want to start an outlet in Dagupan. Let’s talk about it! ]
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I’M Pedro "Jun" Melgar of Collegium Liberum Bro­therhood. I would like to extend my congratulations to you and your group for the wonderful maiden issue of Lightshare Digest. I'll send you some of my poems and please see if it can be in­cluded in this Di­gest as a contribution from your read­ers. Regards and more po­wer to you and your group.

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--PEDRO V. MELGAR JR.

liberum@edsamail.com.ph

Collegium Liberitum Brotherhood

[Thanks for e-mailing a whole bunch of wonderful poems after sending in your first e-mail message. You’ll see that one of these poems is carried in this issue. Keep it up!]

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. THE WHOLE first issue of the LightShare Digest was really wonderful. Ev­ery sin­gle page of it. I just had to get my copy the last time I was in Manila and it was truly worth the effort locat­ing the book store you list­ed in the on-line ad. My spirit resonated most strong­ly with the message of the back-page “ad” ab­out touching those tiny leaves and exchanging energies with them, and as a result, magnifying those energies.

I am no longer a city-dwel­ler because of my work, I am glad I no longer lack what Ms. De Guzman says in a quote within that “ad.” I am no admirer of quota­tions but that one is just great. I’m glad that my em­ployment has been putting me in constant touch with nature, forcing me to learn how to read the behavior and even the changes in behavior of insects. I have discovered that all humans can learn much more from Nature than reading books or surfing the Net for weeks on end. I salute the LightShare Digest-- including its sections that carry quotations, because these quotes are not being used to win any arguments. Keep it up! And now that I know where the outlet is, it will be easier to get my copy of the next issue. When will that one be out?

--MELVIN CANDONI

melted_candle2005@yahoo.com

[Each issue comes out within the last few days of the month preceding the first of the issue months,. We are inter­ested in your experiences in “reading Nature.” Could you post such sharing in the light­share e-group so the Light­Share Di­gest editors can con­sider it for one of our forth­co­ming issues, perhaps even for the very next one? About quotes, you might find one ar­ticle in this issue particularly in­teresting. – Ed.]

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THE PAGES of the Light­Share Digest, first issue, were brightened up by a profuse supply of visual elements, like photos and illustrations. I did notice, though, that except for the cover painting, the illus­trators were not cited. The photographs were simple portrait shots that could have been taken in “photo-me” kiosks, but the illus­trations just had to be done by artistic hands. Whether or not they were paid com­mensurately, it’s part of their dignity in the artistic profession to be identified! I'm quite disappointed that I still have to point this out.
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BONG H. CASTILLO

bong_castle2004@gmail.com

[The omission is respectful­ly acknowledged and no excus­es are offered. Thanks for pointing this out. To rec­tify: The inclined pencil piece at the end of the Letter from the Editors on page 5 was repro­duced from the first watercolor piece done by LD associate editor Joydee C. Robledo way back in 1997. Almost all the other illustrations were done by editor Ding Re­yes.]

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