mátulain

Mátulain: After Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club”

I want to deserve the best quality crab but deep down I know I don’t. My best quality heart can’t lie to itself.

Nov 29

Mátulain: We Live as Water Does

Troubled taga-ilog, I fled to the desert, only to find myself protected by water still.

Nov 22

Mátulain: You Won’t Even Miss Me

You can take my 'hood. You can take my city. I'll be gone for good.

Nov 15

Mátulain: PASADA

Deference is not a defense is not a decision.

Nov 8

Mátulain: ‘Di Ako Selfish! ‘Di Ako Galit!

Sorry muna. I love you pero sorry muna.

Nov 1

Mátulain: Until It Sticks

I pretend there is another rule: “Be kind.” But people-pleasing isn’t kindness.

Oct 25

Mátulain: How Much?

The point is not to get rich. It’s to SURVIVE and I’m not able to do that right now.

Oct 18

Mátulain: Sana Sapat

Will our specific bloodline die? Will the closest to me be forgotten?

Oct 11

Mátulain: Crooks

But grief can be gentle, can be controlled by the quality of the love lost, can be a comfort in its own way, can be a love that stays because it has…

Oct 4

Mátulain: Call Me a Brave Girl

I would remember how courage meant business as usual, and how strength meant silence.

Sep 27

Mátulain: I Carry Them with Me, as They Carry Me

Even across oceans, they are my protectors.

Sep 20

Mátulain: I Don’t Like Opening Up

I ask no one and no one answers.

Sep 13

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