Life Encounters: My Life in Poems and Quotes

By Glengyl Onga - Umali

This book is filled with life’s lessons in poetry and quotes about the author’s daily encounters. Facing life as he views it, from the vast influences from his political and cultural activist, artist, sociologist, and a counselor’s life.

In here you will see over-lay illustrations depicting the message of each poems which can also serve as a coloring book for your indulgence. I choose to present them in black and white to let you know that I had much-colored friends in my life but I have few friends who talk to me about what they’re going through. Depression and Mental health are widely discussed nowadays but there are just few people who reach out to talk about their struggle.

It’s a day in the life of a multi-potentialist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781532085154

Glengyl Onga - Umali

Glengyl Umali also known as “Langyawng Laaw” on YouTube, took a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) – Philippines. He earned a Masteral units in Sustainable Development Studies (MiSDS) major in Sustainable Community Development at the said university and Masteral units in Public Administration in MSU – Marawi. Mr. Umali is a multi-potentialist having a variety of accomplishments in the field of Community Organizing focusing on Conflict Management and Peace Education in Northwestern Mindanao through Pailig Development Foundation, Incorporated (PDFI). An HIV AIDS counselor trained by the Alliance Against AIDS in Mindanao, a former youth facilitator of the Bishop-Ulama Conference – Mindanaw Tripartite Youth Core. (BUC-MTYC). And served as a Secretariat and a Production Staff of The Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) in Iligan. In 2011, he was chosen as one of the four (4) representative from the Philippines during the “Asia – Pacific Forum: Youth Action on Climate Change; Exploration through Cultural Expression” in Rajamangala University of technology Phra Nakhon in Thailand. He was a SPAFA scholar from 2010 to 2011. He is currently working as a Check-in-Coordinator at a prominent Self-Publishing Company based in the US. His inspiration are his authors whom have made him write this book, with various manuscript he sees everyday before turning them into an actual book he feels blessed to have read them before publication.

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iUniverse rev. date:  10/10/2019

No human is innately bad, only bad circumstances

Acknowledgement

Thirty five years and counting great life experiences with amazing friends who stayed and the ones who have left for a reason, all of you has been part of my journey and we’ve shared tremendous gift and that is to exist for one another.

I’d like to share these three golden rule, I’ve been trying to keep up every day.

1

Be available for someone to talk to, life is full of challenges. Let them feel that you’re there for them.

2

Be kind to one another, share a smile, never keep grudge or angst to people around you, and remember no one has moved on because of hate.

3

Depression is an aggregation of everything people went through in life, unaddressed, neglected, left to grow; a parasite they’ve petted on a daily basis. Talk to friends.

I choose the black and white package to let you know that I had much-colored friends in my life but I have a few of them