One of my philosophy professors lectured wildly about love once, yelling: “When you’re in love with someone, that person is the lighthouse of your universe.” (I scrawled it inside Science and Poetry in pencil-lighthouse of your universe-as if I would ever forget that phrase.)

He was a delightful caricature of his position. I could swear he ( Read more... )

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She blessed us with the F word:


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"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

-Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

Once when I was a kid, my birthday wish was to be allowed to skip blowing the candle on my cake because I already wanted ( Read more... )

In Tabango, Leyte:


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We left Tacloban at around 1 o’clock in the afternoon, ate lunch in my uncle’s favorite kiosk along the way, and at around 3 o’clock, we arrived here:


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