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Cecilia Brainard Childhood Pictures

September 11, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

I’m shar­ing two child­hood pic­tures that I recent­ly cleaned up. The first one is the only sur­viv­ing pic­ture of me as an infant.  This shows my old­est sis­ter Vicky car­ry­ing me, my sis­ter Ana, and my broth­er Jess or Junior.  This pho­to was tak­en in our tem­po­rary home in Tal­isay, Cebu. We stayed there for a few years after World War II, while my par­ents built our home in Cebu City behind the Capitolio.

The sec­ond pic­ture shows my broth­er Jess, sis­ter Ana, and me at Liloan Beach in Cebu. In the back­ground is a remant of a World War II land­ing craft.  I was born after the war but now I real­ize I grew up sur­round­ed by evi­dence of World War II. It took Cebu and the rest of the Philip­pines year to recov­er from that hor­rif­ic war.

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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