Joel Magsaysay

Intelligent, strong-willed, and fiercely loyal. He took his younger sisters to school in the mornings in their mother's car and sped to the extremes he craved for. He went motorcycling to the tip of the northernmost point of the country, went sailing, shooting, hunting. Braved the threat of radical Islamic groups in Sultan Kudarat where he learned about coco and cacao. Traded the corporate life for beekeeping, his blood for honey and slower, quieter days in the farm with his family. Where he can wear shorts and slippers to work, his bosses are the skies, the wind, and the blooms, where the bees can tell people to buzz off and not bother him, where he feels closer to his Maker. Big brother, big appetite, big hearty laugh, big voice.