Don't Look Back in Anger
Seeing Oasis reunite stirred a bit of jealousy in me. They were never at the top of my bucket list—but maybe that’s why I missed my chance. I didn’t write them down because deep down, I never thought it would happen.
Niña Sandejas
God Forbid a Mother Shows Her Teeth
I’m trying to write this with a gentleness I do not feel. A public gentleness, because God forbid a mother shows her teeth. But inside, the marrow of me is screaming. There are things that need to be dragged into the light, especially when the body that hits the
Framing Devotion: On Music, Memory, and the Invisible Work of Witnessing
We all know the feeling—how music lodges itself deep into the soft parts of you. How one song, out of nowhere, feels like it crawled out of your chest just to meet you halfway. You hear it, and suddenly you’re not alone. The ache is mutual. The joy is shared.
Love, Like Comets, Arrives from the Edge of the Universe
In the early hours of April 13th, after the last song had been played and the final note struck, a streak of green cut across the sky, lighting up the corner of my eye, up above the parking lot of Saguijo.