Nina L. B. Tomen – The Storytellers' Society Inc. https://storytellerstayo.ph We, The Storytellers’ Society, Inc. (TSSI), envision ourselves as missionary disciples of Christ. Tue, 25 May 2021 02:08:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.5 https://storytellerstayo.ph/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-TSSI-Logo-1-32x32.png Nina L. B. Tomen – The Storytellers' Society Inc. https://storytellerstayo.ph 32 32 A TALE OF TWO GIVERS https://storytellerstayo.ph/a-tale-of-two-givers/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/a-tale-of-two-givers/#respond Sun, 09 May 2021 04:27:02 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4775 This is a tale of two givers – HAVE-NOT and HAVE. HAVE-NOT lives in dire poverty. She was a teen when she got pregnant, sired six […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/a-tale-of-two-givers/feed/ 0 Ripples of Hope https://storytellerstayo.ph/ripples-of-hope/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/ripples-of-hope/#respond Mon, 19 Apr 2021 09:26:39 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4708 The Community Pantry dominates social media nowadays. It began in Maginhawa Street as an initiative of a young entrepreneur named Ana Patricia Non, daughter of fellow […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/ripples-of-hope/feed/ 0 BE STILL, MY TROUBLED HEART https://storytellerstayo.ph/be-still-my-troubled-heart/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/be-still-my-troubled-heart/#respond Sat, 03 Apr 2021 09:29:15 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4451 Yesterday, Good Friday, I woke up to stillness and deathly silence around me except for one strange noise that I’ve been hearing these past few days. […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/be-still-my-troubled-heart/feed/ 0 The Power of Storytelling https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-power-of-storytelling/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-power-of-storytelling/#respond Sun, 07 Feb 2021 13:53:16 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4423 “Oh look! There’s Mateo with his dog. They are on their way to the market.” I looked closely and I found Mateo walking beside his dog. […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-power-of-storytelling/feed/ 0 THE BLANK PAGE CHALLENGE https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-blank-page-challenge/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-blank-page-challenge/#respond Sat, 02 Jan 2021 06:45:04 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4379 Yesterday was the first day of 2021 and many of us greeted it with hope mixed with uncertainty. Will it be a better year? Will the […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-blank-page-challenge/feed/ 0 THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS IN THE 21ST CENTURY https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-parable-of-the-ten-virgins-in-the-21st-century/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-parable-of-the-ten-virgins-in-the-21st-century/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:42:07 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4309 We experienced the flood that various communities are experiencing now in post-Pinatubo Pampanga in the latter part of 1990. I spent half of my life in […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-parable-of-the-ten-virgins-in-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 Bangon, Oragon! https://storytellerstayo.ph/bangon-oragon/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/bangon-oragon/#respond Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:00:06 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4253 I was there before it happened – Typhoon Rolly, I mean. I went to that now badly-battered part of the Bicol Region in October 2019. It […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/bangon-oragon/feed/ 0 THE MISSIONARY https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-missionary/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-missionary/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:39:56 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4161 I met him in 2013. It was not a face-to-face meeting. I came to know this missionary through stories told by his devotees. He has long […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/the-missionary/feed/ 0 WHAT IT TAKES TO MOVE ON https://storytellerstayo.ph/what-it-takes-to-move-on/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/what-it-takes-to-move-on/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:45:21 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=4016 The way these words are carelessly uttered in this country nowadays, you’d think it is the easiest thing to do. I was busy with paperwork one […]

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]]> https://storytellerstayo.ph/what-it-takes-to-move-on/feed/ 0 GATEWAY TO THE PAST https://storytellerstayo.ph/gateway-to-the-past/ https://storytellerstayo.ph/gateway-to-the-past/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:23:03 +0000 https://storytellerstayo.ph/?p=3998 Not many are aware that the Archdiocese of San Fernando (Pampanga) has a DIGITAL COLLECTION of Spanish-era documents in its archives. When Bp. Ambo David was […]

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