Focus: Challenged but not disabled

Focus: Challenged but not disabled

I met Fr. Bob Ronald when I started to work at eRenlai in 2007. I was then the network animator of the website and he was our English editor. Although we shared the same office and we were seeing each other everyday, I realised only after his passing that I had just begun to know him.

Read more: Challenged but not disabled

Focus: Challenged but not disabled

I never met Robert Ronald S.J. The first time I stepped into the old eRenlai offices was several months after he had passed from this ephemeral world. Yet as I came for an internship I was also somewhat blindly stepping into his shoes.

Read more: "I have no hang-ups"

Focus: Challenged but not disabled

On October 1, 2007 I will celebrate my 75th birthday. As I look back over these years, I am filled with many feelings. For one thing, the time has gone so fast. The years that looked so far away when I first started out are already far behind me. For another, so many things happened along the way that had not been anticipated, some good, some...

Read more: My first 75 years: looking back

Focus: Challenged but not disabled

The time for looking back is also an opportunity for looking forward because there is still an uncertain number of years ahead of me yet to come.

Read more: My first 75 years: looking ahead

Focus: Challenged but not disabled

Usually the course of a person’s life follows a common pattern. First there is a period of formation and preparation. Then there are years of productive activity, during which they marry and raise children. Finally, comes retirement and gradual decline until death.

Read more: My first 75 years: a map

Focus: Challenged but not disabled

On August 1, 1931 in Martinez, California, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, one Robert Anthony Ronald from New York married Hazel Ritha Bergamini. From that union I was born. For those two persons from such different backgrounds to have met requires a staggering mind boggling amount of chance events.

Read more: My first 75 years: my roots and my branches

Focus: Challenged but not disabled

Read more: The quest for inner peace

Focus: Challenged but not disabled

'Everyone's favorite subject is themselves' so goes the saying. Yet, there is an incredible body of literature from religious figures, social scientists, psychoanalysts, mystics and writers on how to view ones own self and others.

Read more: Do you know who you are or what you are? Does it matter?