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MANILA: It's Christmas Day as I upload this, and I ask, "What is the message of Christmas?" A day before Christmas, with the image above that I have composed, I write of sunsets, mine and his, one for the living and one for the dead. Sunsets that do not end, that morph into nights. We don't appreciate sunsets sometimes even when we see them, and then they're gone. This new blog of mine is for the living to move on to better times after some sad sunsets, Christmas time or not. Drug users are the living dead, and we want them more alive than dead. My sunset photograph was taken 08 December 2016 at 1718 hours with my Lumix FZ100 digital zoom. Now I see in the gray cloud in the middle of the right part of the image a man with arms stretched as if saying goodbye. The inset photo is , or more correctly, was Clay Shepard, American; he was 22 years old when he died. Nobody killed him but himself, by a drug overdose (Randall Neely, 16 June 2015, inspiremore.com

MANILA: Pardon me, but I'm a novice at this point. I'm the new guy around here, so I have to learn to be good at working in a foundation, teach myself what I don't know yet. What is a foundation? It's a charitable and non-profit organization. According to the American Council on Foundations ( cof.org ), a foundation is an institution that plays a key role in society and helps "to form and strengthen communities." With many who volunteer their services backed up by many donors, the Foundation as a whole may perform functions that are normally performed by government. But not adequately; otherwise, what's a foundation for? We must remember that a foundation is a non-stock, non-profit organization that raises funds, according to the SEC, "to maintain and aid charitable, religious, educational, athletic, cultural, literary, scientific, social welfare or similar activities primarily through extending grants or endowments" (Zinnia B dela Peñ