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Posted on June 22, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Sayang!
By Emmanuelle
Truly, in this case, there is more substance to our native tongue than to our adopted one. Sometimes, that which is squeezed from the self is better by far.
How to translate, transpose, and transmit the exact meaning of the word sayang? All through the night, and dawn, and early morn, this writer tossed and [...]
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Posted on June 15, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
There IS a reason!
By Emmanuelle
AND so we come to the nitty gritty of things. For your flat nose, the failed Board score at first test, the job that was yours almost, the lover who had gotten over you fast, the party that flopped, the cake that flopped with it as well. And the window-grabbing child [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
There must be a reason!
By Emmanuelle
Whenever she travels from home to somewhere near or far, as in minutes or hours or days or weeks away, she always makes it a point to reserve a place for herself by the window – be it car, van, bus, boat or balloon.
Disaster has no other name for [...]
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Posted on May 25, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Of all places to be!
By Emmanuelle
Usually, at this point of our predawn confidences, I would be thoroughly awake. My friend's texted messages at these unholy hours always did have this powerful effect not only on me, but to all of us whom she calls her predawn friends. If she texted you at predawn, you are [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Of all places to be!
By Emmanuelle
AND the world of her words seemed but just a hairbreadth away.
This intern, whose quiet footsteps I follow, monitors the patients on the chart supposedly by the hour. Each round, though, takes more than an hour, even two hours to complete. These predawn hours, it is a full deck, not [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Of all places to be, at predawn!
By Emmanuelle
I wake up, startled from a deep, predawn sleep. My pink phone had been ringing imperiously, and it is not the ringer's fault. Its ringtone is for friends who needed friends at these really impossible hours.
This one writes not in decapitated SMS language but in uncorrupted grammar. [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Not with my son, you don’t!
By Emmanuelle
This week, this mother talks:
It was an indescribably difficult birth, but finally, after twelve hours of dry labor my first child was born. He will be my first and only son. I will have my first and only girl many years later, but that is another story. Let us [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
An exercise in futility
By Emmanuelle
If she did not switch off the lights and if she did not turn down the earphones, she would not have seen and she would not have heard the little girl crying. In the rain. At ten in the evening.
As it was, without the drums in her ear, May did [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Go, Dana, go!
By Emmanuelle
The angels must have prayed hard, harder each of the second and third times Dana went comatose. They must have moved heaven. For Dana to have survived being comatose was a miracle in itself. To have survived two more of the same is beyond miracle.
Jovi and her family always expected the [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Go, Dana, go!
By Emmanuelle
Nowadays, the churches are seldom empty. People look up to heaven more. Eyes closed and hands clasped in fervent plea, they pray for the strength to persevere. For the simple daily miracle of finding resources within and without themselves. Most of all, for the safety of their loved ones. That they may [...]
