“Buwis-buhay ka talaga (you really defy death),” my friend Suzanne said when I insisted on climbing Busol again after more than a year. It’s been raining for days, and we were told that climbing the mountain would be trickier, if not dangerous. We did anyway, twice: once in June and another in July. Bloom in…
Chasing rainfalls in Baguio
Call me ignorant, but I really didn’t know that the Philippines’ summer capital gets the most rainfall in the country until I read World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Philippines’ climate change risk assessment on Baguio (Business Risk Assessment and the Management of Climate Change Impacts). I learned more about this when I had the chance to…
Conversation no. 3: cervical cancer patient
Originally posted on beingKirei:
She took her hat off, revealing her bare head. She gives me a genuine but nervous smile. She kept laughing most of the time during our conversation, making me feel a little uncomfortable about the whole thing. ME: Anong pumasok sa isip mo nung malaman mong may cervical cancer ka? HER:…
Easter’s child
Originally posted on beingKirei:
Rebirth. Does anyone today ever want to be born again? Dying planet…restless society…broken families…lost friends…imagined lovers…broken hearts…unpaid debts…the misery seem to go on and on. But that’s exactly why there is hope in all these.These misfortunes go on because life does. Even amid the blades of grass, something else grows to…
Black Saturday miracles
I started Black Saturday with a 6AM run. I pushed myself harder this time, helping me finish 5 minutes earlier than my previous run. I felt so good. Spent, but good. In the afternoon, I huffed and puffed as I climbed the hill of Caleruega toward the Tent Chapel of Transfiguration. The sky was getting…
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