Lou Vidal Saga

This is the story of my life, not a factual autobiography. I am telling it not as a journalism reporter or a research scholar but as a creative storyteller. As such I seek more than just to inform.

As an old storyteller I have a very serious but simple reason for writing as many of these tales as I can remember. I have survived physically, psychologically and intellectually though not easily or comfortably and happily all the time.

Now, I am bothered by the statistical rate of suicide of Filipinos from the age of fifteen to twenty-four years old. So, I want to share the lessons that have enabled me to live a long productive life.

For my tales to be effective they must first be understood and accepted. They should not be in the form of a lecture or sermon. They should be in the form of tales that can be experienced perceptively and emotionally to be understood intellectually.