Dear Editor
Perhaps the most welcome
feature in Imelda's Monthly is the column of Mr. Teodoro F. Valencia.
There must be thousands like myself who find his column so absorbing that
missing it on any one day causes acute discomfort.
Mr. Valencia's optimism,
so different from the front pages' emphasis on the negative side of things,
loosens that feeling of uptightness. This optimism makes his column
an ideal vehicle for wiping the dirt away.
Even before my first cup
of coffee in the morning, my hand reaches for Mr. Valencia's column.
As I sit in the smallest room in the house, Mr. Valencia's column is before
me; shortly afterwards it is behind me - and then I can stand
up, ready to face the world.
There must be thousands
who, like myself, feel something in their guts every time they have the
moving experience of reading Mr. Valencia. In my office and in the
dozens of offices I have visited, Mr. Valencia's column is the only one
that people regularly clip (or tear) out before they leave for coffee break.
I am sure that the thousands
who find Mr. Valencia's column extremely useful would highly appreciate
his writing a much longer column. More power to Mr. Valencia.
Gerry Gil
Diliman, Rizal