Monopolizing storytelling made Oz less and less colourful
I've read a lot of books ever since I was old enough to know how, and like Chimamanda Adichie, I noticed that the stories I've read were about foreign…
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I've read a lot of books ever since I was old enough to know how, and like Chimamanda Adichie, I noticed that the stories I've read were about foreign…
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A woman stands alone at the bus stop. Back slightly crooked, but chin still up high. Strands of silver weave through her dark hair, and her skin catches…
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How does one become significant? How does one transform through creation, connection, and the courage to exist fully⸺even when the world seems too vast, and…
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"And whatever walked there, walked alone." ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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“But how do you speak to a granddaughter in her dead mother's stead? Can the responsibility to the dead ever be replaced by the responsibility to the living?”…
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"Almost" seems to be a recurring theme in my life. Never quite reaching. Always just barely.
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A poem inspired by "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie.
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How do you measure the life of a woman or a man? In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried. In bridges he burned, or the way that she died. ⸺ Rent
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Quezon City, crowned a Creative City for Film, has always been the country’s cinematic heart.
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The passing of a significant moment does not yield to the limitations of time. It stretches infinitely. It stays, just long enough for the eye to savour it; to…
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"Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this…
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I sold everything I owned except for a few changes of clothes when I left Manila. Everything, including the two-story house, the seven-seater family car that…
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“They should invent a way to save your mother.” “They should invent a mother who wants to be saved.”
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