Go Slow and Easy

It's going to be a slow and quiet holiday season this year, especially in the US, where the galloping numbers of covid cases and deaths have united health professionals and public officials (except for a minority) in pleading for people to stay home and forego multi-family gatherings and travel. 

So between Zoom, Netflix and doing the stuff that gets you from one day to the next, we hope you'll spend time to peruse the stories, hundreds of them now, that we have posted since we started Positively Filipino in 2013. PF, as you are well aware, is an online-only magazine, thus all our posts are permanently stored on the web, available 24/7/365 to anyone who wants to read them.

If you're a new subscriber, PF posts new stories every Wednesday such as today. Our target readership are Filipinos all over the world, aka the diaspora, and we try to reflect that wide variety of interests in the equally wide variety of stories that we curate. If you click on our site, http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/ and click on Collections, you'll see the categories of articles that we cover. For quick look-sees on what's happening in our global community, we have our In Brief section, https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/in-brief that capsulizes important news daily. For those who want to look beyond our pages, we have our curated In The Know links to interesting stories in other publications included in our Wednesday newsletter.

However you want to fit PF into your life, we thank you for reading. We are truly appreciative of your continuing support.

Our Stories This Week:

‘50s-Style McCarthyism Comes To The Philippines By Ernesto M. Hilario

Joe Mari Chan’s Enduring Heart Songs By Paulynn Paredes Sicam

Girl Interrupted By Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard

The Happy Home Cook: Holiday Pavlova By Jojo Sabalvaro-Tan

Video of the Week : Here's a new pandemic Christmas song from Fr. Manoling Francisco 

In The Know

[ANALYSIS] What can the Philippines learn from the US elections?
https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/analysis-what-can-philippines-learn-us-elections

1st Philippine-made Maya nanosatellite completes space mission, returns to earth
https://www.goodnewspilipinas.com/1st-philippine-made-maya-nanosatellite-completes-space-mission-returns-to-earth/?fbclid=IwAR1DcmUPUM0lOnXFazJlvC65z3XVGFAV2x-L9iXAEzxl-FslDgvF89AjyI8

14 drive-by spots in and around Manila—for when you just have to get out of the house
https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/travel/destination/12/08/20/15-drive-by-spots-in-and-around-manilafor-when-you-just-have-to-get-out-of-the-house?fbclid=IwAR2aJuQi4_szza7sQhdCGYojPNbSk6F94CRQzjgpGH5JgfcC50fAmXLaM_A

Filipino Immigrants in the United States
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/filipino-immigrants-united-states?fbclid=IwAR1Wot0dYhWAv1ikhMLJxcqKGtVxys0R4wB1YegJXigArEyxonXmBSW1sQU

What the lullabies we sing to our children reveal about us
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/12/what-the-lullabies-we-sing-to-our-children-reveal-about-us-feature/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Photography_20201204&rid=A6813A01D20D50942AFADAD6C6F1E549

Owner of stolen P10-million plant: ‘Alagaan niyo lang siya’
https://philstarlife.com/living/940897-the-p10-million-sansevieria-bg-regale-has-been-stolen-and-other-plant-heists?page=4

Here’s A Complete List Of The 46 Parts of A Filipino House
https://www.realliving.com.ph/lifestyle/arts-culture/here-s-a-complete-list-of-the-46-parts-of-a-filipino-house-a1618-20180821-lfrm?utm_source=Facebook-RealLiving&utm_medium=Ownshare&utm_campaign=20201121-fbnp-lifestyle-here-s-a-complete-list-of-the-46-parts-of-a-filipino-house-a1618-20180821-lfrm-fbold&fbclid=IwAR3gXfwZ5e6MjhFx7yuDpwNKoc74f-dnjAGcfVMYcpKzJJ_tLcpnraUCaQU

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