20051206
sweet christmas gifts
i got my first christmas gift today. yay! :-D
the poet in the office gave it to me. i was so happy! ahahaha. i opened it and there was this name in there that sounded filipino.
like great pieces of art, i was rendered speechless. words are the most abused medium, in my opinion. we punish them relentlessly without thinking.
so, when you also write in the same space as the midwest and but have never seen a tornado before, or have only vague images of manila and baguio in your memory, your thoughts shift and you wonder if you can just stop your life for a moment so you can read this book. or how you must return to manila and baguio at least just this once more. how there's that other book too, waiting. and other books and movies, too. you haven't even really chosen one, even. you stop after you remember a bookshelf in dire need of organizing. and then you're hit with a subtle wack behind the head: just reading? you sure you can do that?
i digress. ¶ 12/06/2005 09:45:00 PM
the poet in the office gave it to me. i was so happy! ahahaha. i opened it and there was this name in there that sounded filipino.
like great pieces of art, i was rendered speechless. words are the most abused medium, in my opinion. we punish them relentlessly without thinking.
so, when you also write in the same space as the midwest and but have never seen a tornado before, or have only vague images of manila and baguio in your memory, your thoughts shift and you wonder if you can just stop your life for a moment so you can read this book. or how you must return to manila and baguio at least just this once more. how there's that other book too, waiting. and other books and movies, too. you haven't even really chosen one, even. you stop after you remember a bookshelf in dire need of organizing. and then you're hit with a subtle wack behind the head: just reading? you sure you can do that?
i digress. ¶ 12/06/2005 09:45:00 PM
