Revelations + Destinations
Travel, religion, revelations
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Smoke break
The last memory I had of last Holy Week was being drunk alone in the surprisingly empty streets of Blumentritt.…
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Almost ‘trentahin’ thing
A few days from now, I will no longer be twenty-nine, and the thought of turning 30 feels heavier than…
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The privilege of coming home
There is a scene in Hannah Espia’s “Transit” that I constantly think about. The film follows an overseas Filipino worker…
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Between then and now
I was listening to “I Have a Dream” by ABBA the other day, and man, it hit me like a…
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Hunger
“I’m hungry.” These were my first words on the first morning after my first full eight-hour sleep in 10 months.…
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One checkbox at a time
I wake up, thankful for another day. The cat is clawing at the door. The calendar says rent is due…
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New beginnings in February
Life either gives you so much that you have many things to write about, or so overwhelmingly that you cannot…
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Better to be kind than right, right?
My dad’s central motto has always been “It’s better to be kind than right.” He was, and still is, the…
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Crying over spilled milk
I’ve been told that there is no use “crying over spilled milk.” While scrolling through the internet, I came across…
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