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Respite By Chaos

It is not only in Libya that chaos visited recently. Well, Bob Dylan once said that "chaos is a friend of mine." That is something Bob and I do not share other than love for folk songs.

What happened, an editorial staff accidentally deleted article submission files including my first one in March. The article was an extra one for the month of February that I have already submitted because of a special request to run an article for the Valentine's Day. In the chaos of daily article-making in Sun.Star Cebu, apparently there can always be a risk of this happening.

So I was quite confident that today's installment for Breakthroughs had been well covered, only to find out yesterday when I opened the Breakthroughs email that notification emails from my editor, the ever-patient Lilith, that the article fridge was empty. I called her to find out what really happened. Chuck Palahniuk said, "Our real discoveries come from chaos." And what a thing to discover. So the story goes.

Anyway, I re-submitted the lost article and the rest of the March articles for the Wednesday column. And with it were the April articles, too. So dear readers you are covered for another month extra.

But still I apologize for this weeks's respite from Breakthroughs that chaos had brought... thankfully enough, not as bloody as Libya's.

Well, Tom Barrett reminds me: "Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth." Thanks for that Tom. That's exactly what respite is all about.
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