“We All Lead Public Lives” – That’s My Latest Rendering Of The Name Of My New Blog, “Multiples Of I’s”

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I turned 82 on Sept 17; Randy David will be 76 on Jan 08 – he is in Wikipedia(Randy David), and I am not. He is an alumnus of UP (Diliman) and so am I (Los Baños) – he is a sociologist and I am an agriculturist. So why am I admiring him? Because he has an open mind, not the usual UP mindset of being anti.

Joy Duldulaoshares on Facebook today, Monday, 02 Jan 2023, Randy David’s column “Notes To Oneself” at the Inquirer(opinion.inquirer.net). Very practical! He himself judges his list thus: “Great pieces of advice!” To that, he adds: “I confirm the sublime practicality of some of them (#11 and #13, for instance)” – but he forgot to number them! At 76, this 82 fellow communicator forgives him. (Oh yes, his list numbers 26. My MS Word counted it for me when I selected the whole list and clicked “Numbering” – on my own, I self-learned that word processing lesson at least 22 years ago.)

Randy: “When you’ve reached a certain age, you give up trying to be a different kind of person. You learn to accept who you are and stop making those yearly resolutions with which you used to start the new year. It doesn’t mean though that, henceforth, anything goes. Rather, you find yourself veering toward what Nietzsche calls the “great and rare art” of “giving style” to your character.

Frank: “My Person: Differently, I have been trying to be a different kind of person – more forgiving, more loving. And I will continue to do so. My Blogging: I am now trying to be more inclusive, that is why I have this new blog: “Multiples Of I’s” (Slogan: “We must think in multiples of I’s”). Born yesterday, literally: 30 Dec 2022, on the date of death of date of my favorite hero, Jose Protacio Rizal. Yes, Rizal thought for the good in multiples of I’s, unlike Andres Bonifacio, who thought for the bad in multiples of I’s.

What I mean is that Rizal wanted the Philippines to be a province of Spain. Here is a pertinent entry in Britannica(“José Rizal,” britannica.com):

Rizal’s political program included integration of the Philippines as a province of Spain, representation in the Cortes (the Spanish parliament), the replacement of Spanish friars by Filipino priests, freedom of assembly and expression, and equality of Filipinos and Spaniards before the law.

Rizal was thinking in multiples, not individuals – My hero!

Randy’s #8 is this: “Focus on the future you seek rather than on the future you fear. Resist fatalism, and always remember that dire assessments of the future can become self-fulfilling.”

As a self-taught crusading digital journalist who happens to be college-trained as an agriculturist, the future I seek for the Philippines is that of rich farmers and happy habitats – Farmer Poverty has been conquered and Climate Change subjugated. That is why I keep blogging/plugging about Regenerative Agriculture (RA), because RA regenerates not only farm families but also the natural countryside.@517

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