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Happy Father’s Day this 2020

June 21, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

My father died when I was nine but I remem­ber him clear­ly. What I remem­ber most of all was the feel­ing of sta­bil­i­ty and calm that he inject­ed into our fam­i­ly. Here are some real­ly old black and white pho­tos, grainy, bare­ly dis­cern­able at times, but mean­ing­ful to me. Hap­py Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Remem­ber that you can cre­ate feel­ings in your fam­i­lies that will last a life­time. I’m the child with bangs.


There’s the Christ­mas pic­ture with my sis­ter and me next to Papa; there we are swim­ming in the sea. And there’s Papa read­ing in the four-poster antique bed. He read a lot; we all read a lot. Every Fri­day or Sat­ur­day, he used to take us to Ale­mar’s so we could buy what­ev­er read­ing mate­r­i­al we want­ed, comics, mag­a­zines, books.

Tags: Father’s Day, old pic­tures, fam­i­ly, #fathers #daugh­ters #Philip­pines #Cebu

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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.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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