“walking along a familiar road
while seeing a new and different world
your home calls you a stranger
homesick to what he knows and holds”
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Carmel graduated with a BA Communication Arts degree from the University of the Philippines-Los Baños.
“They say home is where the heart is. But when I think about home, I think about places I cannot go back to. Home is love and love is grief. People ask me where I’m from and I do not know which branch of my roots to say: Yes, I’m staying in Los Baños now. No, I grew up in San Pedro. Oh, but our family is from Tuguegarao.”
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Dana is a writing major at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
“The Brown Room is at the far end of the dimly-lit hallway. I can’t see anyone, but there is a different sound from each room I pass. I assume there are people manning machines or whatever they develop here. All I can hear are my footsteps as I approach the Brown Room I am not quite confident with this operation. My heart pounds heavier as I draw near the room. But, this is a risk worth taking. I want to see him. I badly want to. No matter which way. I just want to see him again.”
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GJ graduated from the BA Communication Arts program of the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
“She’s buried under here! She always wanted to be by this big, old tree when she died,” Ani says with a subtle enthusiasm that Sarah noted. “Nanay likes to spend afternoons here like you, just sitting in silence with her thoughts. One day, she promised me that we’d finally get this land back to our ancestors. Did you know they used to plant all kinds of fruits here?”
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Ida Palo is a writer, media worker, and activist from Laguna, Philippines. She currently serves as Community Administrator for New Naratif and Regional Coordinator of College Editors' Guild of the Philippines - Southern Tagalog, the oldest and broadest alliance of tertiary campus publications in Asia-Pacific. As a writer, Ida brings trans revolutionary stories to life.
“Like me, some people aren’t aware that hoarding is a real psychological problem; however, hoarding causes distress, limited quality of life, and exposure to danger for themselves and their loved ones. Additionally, people who live in a cluttered environment have an increased chance of depression, anxiety, low motivation, and low self-worth, symptoms I’ve seen within myself growing up.”
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Jana is a writing major at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. When not writing essays about events in her life, she writes marketing copy for several businesses.
