Revelations + Destinations
Travel, religion, revelations
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Living on potatoes
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on December 13, 2005. Cooking corned beef is fairly easy. You…
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Leaving without formal goodbyes
I went to the nearest grocery store to buy a storage box. I had assumed two backpacks and a suitcase…
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Malaise within gated communities
There’s a famous allegorical story by the late essayist David Foster Wallace where two fictitious fish in the ocean have…
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Season of goodbyes
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on November 22, 2008. Happiness is a choice, I’ve been told.…
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Fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one
I once was certain of what lay ahead, even when it was still settled within the vast plane of the…
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The smell
My parents never taught me how to walk through floods. I would just sit on our old house’s declining wooden…
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That grounded feeling
The thing about seeking professional help is it can make you reliant on your meds. The thing about this statement…
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The return
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on October 25, 2005. When I see old childhood friends in…
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One out of 11,000
There is inherent skepticism among those who perceive education as merely a way to produce skilled but mindless workers for…
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