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Category: Musings

  • A reminder

    Generous compassion, enduring courage, unwavering determination, insatiable curiosity, and radical honesty. Or a golden rule: Ask for help so that others may feel that they can ask too. I do not know what to do with these. But, lastly: Nothing well done is insignificant. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson From an undated journal entry

  • Breath of Life

    cold and frostysteamyusuallyinvisiblethe cold and the Sourcelifefor he who out of dustbreathe of everythingwithout thinkingtempted, livingwith conveniencestechnology to forgetour beginnings

  • I Watched Myself Walking to Church

    Along the red brick road, my boots made light, dull sounds: thump-thump, slowly, carefully, light as a feather with no weight to carry itself against the wind. Then the sound double and I looked back to a girl in a maroon coat. She had a black sling bag on her left should which moved forwards…

  • Stealing fire

    One book I’ve been eyeing for the longest time is Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing. The first time I saw the cover, it looked–felt–distinctly Filipino. Or perhaps it was the title, too. Whichever the case is, I knew even without reading the description nor the author’s name that it was of local culture. I…

  • Art, in medias res

    Art, whether verbal, visual, or variegated, is the human reminder that life is in medias res. We are thrown into this world: us of naïveté and our surroundings that in times are simply of utter confusion. But the thrown-ness of life is always more than that. It is thrown-ness of possibilities: our world as a place…

  • On digital essentialism

    With this new way of living, the necessity of minimalism becomes clearer to me. The things that could potentially unnecessarily distract me must be let go of so that when the important things come about, I can be there fully. That the truly important things must receive my whole is the key, and rightfully so.…

  • The Anti-Weekend

    A proposition: the Anti-Weekend. Instead of one or two (or when extremely fortuitous, three. Like a mystical blue moon) days of no-work weekend, how about one to three days of work and nothing for the rest of the week? Same amount of work. We only get rid of the following: The entitlement to time that…

  • On Twitter and Instagram

    I’ve just deleted mine. Finally. Finally, because I haven’t used it regularly in years (Instagram, at least), haven’t used it at all for months now, and have been convinced that they’re both unnecessary and precarious. For the longest time, only the idea of being able to keep my username on both platforms kept me there.…

  • The function of work

    What is the function of work in a world rich with technological advancements and resources beyond the basic necessities? A world so rich that there’s more than enough waste to cause damages. A world where everything seems to be available at a tap of a finger and within a second. A world like this, right…

  • Contemporary comedies

    오후 1:41 Full disclosure: I feel extremely frustrated and bored-sleepy at the moment. Last night, I thought today was going to be easy-breezy: just the episode, the manual, and an essay. But I woke up with restlessness that resulted to minutes on Youtube, and then hours on the puzzle. This damn puzzle. Honestly, I do…