What are your favorite animals?

Their soft eyes are hard to resist.
Their unconditional acceptance is comforting.
Their ability to live in the present and love despite all they’ve been through is inspiring.
What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
In precolonial Philippines the women were valuable in counsel, spiritual guidance, trained in warfare, and allowed to have independent wealth.
This energy and intuition brought balance and insight, especially when the leaders of different groups met to resolve disputes or create strategic alliances.
Today, we see glimmers of this in the FMA community and beyond.
Life has not always been kind nor comfortable as it is now. And despite all that is expected of him, all that he chooses to obligate himself to, he still keeps the window open…
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My beautiful bird,
where have you been?
I’ve missed you.
Your feathers –
they are not the soft,
full down of innocence.
They are structured,
interlocking,
purposeful.
You are you,
and someone different.