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About the author

Hello, shiny ones! And welcome to my blog BagongPinay or NewFilipina.com. ‘Musta na? Maayo gid tani. (How are you? Fabulous, I hope). If you want read more about the author, yours truly, you can go to the About menu above and click to the Author link. I hope you're enjoying my blog. Mabuhay-LifeLightLove to you, all you do & all you love.

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purity. reality. do you know them?— perla daly

kabuhayan na dalisay

kabuhayan na dalisay (pure life) i love—- …to watch meteor showers while lying down on grass in soft-flannel-lined sleeping bags. …slowing down to just breathe, feel the air on my skin, and the air flowing in and out of me. …sleeping-in and cozying up […]

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Life Motivates

I love to make people feel good about themselves, at work, in class, conversation or chance encounters. I really do love people—-we all have this beauty and light within, waiting to be uncovered, layers peeling away to make a little opening, a door sometimes […]

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BABAYLAN MANDALA I.I

inspired by the babaylan and her service to community, healing, celebration of life, pakikipagkapwa… i created the babaylan mandala, one of which will be featured on the book cover of leny strobel’s next book, a babaylan anthology with narratives from the homeland and the […]

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Filipina Images of the Past

i found this photo of a stunning native filipina morena beauty in the page of old philippines on facebook and became a fan immediately. the caption there is: “from john silva: “people have been commenting on the profile photo of the woman with a fan. i […]

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Filipina Revolutionaries

manytimes, our historical ideals of the filipina are limited to maria clara. but we can find many others to consider as ideals. it’s been about 110 years ago since the philippine revolution and dr. robert l. yoder, fapc wrote 10 years ago during the […]

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pinay.com is going beta

Please join me in testing the pinay.com beta site. Visit the PinayDotCom Beta page on FB to get more details and become a member of the beta testing team.

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Baybayin and Decolonization

In my blog Baybayin Alive, I encourage people to explore an indigenous way of thinking in order to understand the deeper meanings of the Baybayin Symbols. You can read that post at Holistic Approach: Returning to Ancestral Thinking.Here is my latest post:Fertility Symbols, Feminine […]

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Bahay Nakpil, Home of Filipinos

This was a something I posted at my personal site after I visited Manila in 2005. Bahay Nakpil, Home of Filipinos by Perla Paredes Daly Bahay Nakpil flyer forBaybayin. It was baybayin that led me to visit Bahay Nakpil on a trip to Manila. In the summer of […]

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Do Stereotypes Have Power Over You?

Are you Ashamed to be a Filipina? You’ve been disempowered then. So take back your power, already!I am glad to know that there are many, many Filipinos who are proud of being who they are. There is a little thrill within me when I […]