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wonder | wander | women don't often speak of going on a pilgrimage. Many of our family have been on the Camino di Santiago, and in 2001 we celebrated the Maha Kumbh Mela with our community in India. A trip to a museum doesn't seem comparable at first, but in the days of modern travel more people embark on a cultural pilgrimage, to see Charles Dickens' house or Karl Marx's grave or the Museé du Louvre.
Last week, we joined the world to celebrate International Museum Day under the theme Museums Uniting a Divided World.
We proudly posted our hometown island's museum with a majestic artwork of a three-ton carabao at its entrance. The water buffalo is the national mammal of the Philippines. The shockingly sad reality today is the carabao is slowly disappearing from our country's agricultural landscape.
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| BAO: the unbowed carabao at The Negros Museum |
A new exhibition at the Philippine National Museum of Natural History located in a niche at the landing on the fifth level is a family of carabaos from Nueva Ecija that was especially prepared by the museum’s taxidermists and scientists.
On 18 May 2026, museums worldwide will mark International Museum Day under the theme “Museums Uniting a Divided World”. The theme highlights the potential of museums to act as bridges across cultural, social, and geopolitical divides, fostering dialogue, understanding, inclusion and peace within and between communities worldwide.
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| popular museums around the world |
Every year on May 18th, International Museum Day provides an opportunity for museum professionals to alert the general public about the importance of museums and the challenges they face.
wonder | wander | women celebrate Mother's Day twice a year: first in the UK for Mothering Sunday in March, and then in the US and Philippines for the more familiar Mothers' Day. And like many people around the world, we celebrate with flowers.
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| Rose in watercolour |
wander | wander | women recently explored the concept of blue mind - the neuroscience of water associated peace that creates a sense of general happiness and satisfaction with life in the moment.
In contrast to red mind - which neuroscientist Catherine Franssen, PhD, describes as "an edgy high characterized by stress, anxiety, fear, and maybe even a little of anger and despair" - blue mind induces a mildly meditative state characterized by calm, peace, unity.
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| our island paradise |
