The day I met the Girl in the Bush.
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A Mammoth’s Tooth
I had to check the spelling of “mammoth” because I haven’t encountered the word in a while. But it was the topic of last night’s voice note from a dear colleague and friend. This week, she had dinner with a friend who brought old rocks and aquatic animal’s teeth found by fishers on a beach.Continue reading “A Mammoth’s Tooth”
Makati 5:55PM
When Hackett’s Paw Lands On My Knee
Hackett is my mother’s cat. He is 11 years old. When he was 5, he felt incredibly unhappy inside the house, looking out the windows, meowing until he was brought outside. He loved the outside cat life. He became part of a gang of cats, had a few babies until he was neutered at 6Continue reading “When Hackett’s Paw Lands On My Knee”
Green Grace
For my sister’s birthday we met her in an island 5 hours from the city she lives in today. We walked in the forest near the opening of a road and found greens covering the side of the road, it was always summer in the island but underneath the trees, were the greenest greens thatContinue reading “Green Grace”
I think I’ve been Waiting
Today, I felt incredibly lethargic before I took lunch. Perhaps I was hungry, it is 3pm and I had a late breakfast. I found out a month ago that I was not producing enough cortisol. Apparently, cortisol is not just a stress hormone (contrary to what I thought), it also helps you get moving, getContinue reading “I think I’ve been Waiting”
River Walks
A conversation with a friend from 05 January 2024. “…It was really beautiful. I mostly did post production work. But it has been inspiring. In the work, but also in the everyday life.
A Cup of Home
I spent the last two months of 2019 until January 2020 in Bogota with Anna in the house she grew up in. At that time, I was in the middle of editing “Last Days at Sea”. The edit felt like a never ending mystery, something that I could see in my mind but could notContinue reading “A Cup of Home”
The Heaviest Snow Since 1981
I rushed out of bed to open the window as soon as I read Yoonsoo’s message: “Omg there’s snow.” Never mind that I was in a T-shirt fit for filming in Manila’s summer heat. I did not wantTo miss a secondOf this beautiful snowKnowing that it would evaporate before we knew it We kept theContinue reading “The Heaviest Snow Since 1981”
Forgetting
This morning, I forgot the password to my laptop. Just yesterday, all I had to do was graze my hand on the keyboard and my fingers would move by themselves. But this morning, I touched the keyboard and my fingers have forgotten where to go.
Distance Between Two Bodies
I realise I haven’t written anything here lately. My notebook is full of daily notes though. Over time my relationship to this space has changed. But some things I want to re-start again. Just like writing, freely.
Dream – Life
Dream – Life I wish I had known sooner That I was already livingthe lifeI thought I could only dream of Thatthe futureI had been waiting to arrivehad always beenhere.
The People We Were
Last night, I had a dream.We were living in Lisbon in a sunny apartment. It was the end of the day and we were about to go for dinner at a park.Lately I’ve been thinking about the time I spent in Lisbon.
Drawing
I remember I used to draw a lot. It didn’t matter where I was standing, if it was raining or if it was freezing, most importantly, what mattered to me was that I drew my best.
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Two years ago, I spent my birthday on the other side of the world. Bogota was the farthest city in the world for me. It took a 35 hour journey for me to get there. That day, we walked in a garden and looked at flowers. When I was 12, I thought that when youContinue reading “M”
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