The Shoe CapitalLiterary
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A Walk Through Dreams: My First Steps in UP Diliman
Perhaps one day, I will return not as a visitor searching for possibility, but as an Iskolar ng Bayan carrying new dreams of my own.
Emotion is All
If being emotional means refusing to become indifferent, then perhaps emotion is not a weakness at all, it is everything.
It Will Never Be The Cure
Love was never an illness, so why do we need to cure ourselves from it?
I Don’t Know What Milk Tastes Like
People often say that milk is an acquired taste. I would not know.
I Am a Box of Crayons
Different colors, different stories, different identities.
Destined Friendship
Soulmates aren’t always romantic. Sometimes, they are the people who have witnessed every state of us yet continue to accept us for the rest of their lives.
When My Mother Was Still Someone’s Daughter
Because before she became the person who raised me, she was first a girl who survived becoming herself.
My Mother’s Tongue
A mother’s day special, the connection between the understanding of a mother and her child’s unspoken emotions.
The Sole (Soul) I Forgot to Wear
Forgotten shoemaking traditions quietly live on through the soles beneath every step and the souls carrying Marikina's stitched heritage forward.
Nostalgia Will Be The Death of Me
Memory gathers in quiet fragments—old screens, half-faded sounds, small moments polished by time into something softer than they once were.
Strings and Skies: Lessons in Letting Go
And as we whisper goodbye, we tell ourselves: fly well, little kite, fly well.