Today, May 7, marks the passing of Karina Constantino-David in 2019. How is she remembered by so many? In the very words of a friend dear to her, Jurgette Honculada: “Karina Constantino David was blazing comet and blue flame, breaking ground in the 80s with Inang Laya songs, along with Becky Demetillo Abraham, that helped galvanize a generation of feminists and activists, lending form, structure and gravitas to NGO work through HASIK and its pioneering social action programs, infusing gender pedagogy with wit as in Peministang Pusoy (based on poker) and scalpel-sharp analysis as in the inverted cross encapsulating the varieties of female oppression or the typology of mushrooming NGOs which sifted chaff from grain, crossing over to public service in the late 90s, her NGO roots grounding her like a sixth sense, and, in the past few years, jolted out of retirement by a creeping and yet disarming malevolence, harnessing long-dormant reserves of power and creativity along with her fellow Lolas. . . Through song and thought, word and deed, you showed that love for one’s kabaro and kababayans is indivisible from love for Inang Bayan, honored only with a vow of forever.”