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Tag Archives: History
Lonely in the City: How Manila Mends the Heart.
Only a beautiful city can repair a broken heart. After having been turned away from my alma mater and missing the opportunity to bid my students adieu and congratulate them on successfully completing high school, I took my loneliness out … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, architecture, city, faith, History, holy week, Intramuros, Life, Manila, Philippines, travel
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Procrastinating by way of Said.
Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu. – … Continue reading
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Tagged education, personal, Edward Said, ideas, Teaching, History, theory, political
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Commuter’s idealism and finding one’s self.
I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of the classroom and the stifling reality beyond it, which I must do for survival and self-respect. I am … Continue reading
Sunsets and scarves.
Yesterday’s sunset along Santolan road captured all of my current feelings. The city appeared to be burning–an apt way to imagine the Battle of Manila that took place in 1945. But research aside, and no matter how heavy reading about … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Battle of Manila, Death, History, Life, living, Manila, Remembering
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Impermanence.
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one … Continue reading
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Tagged city, History, Impermanence, Japan, Manila, Motion, society, travel, truth, Vladimir Lenin
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