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TROPICAL STORM SENIANG AFTERMATH Photo by Jimmy Domingo for ABS-CBNnews.com A boy walks using stilts at a beach strewn with debris in the aftermath of tropical storm Seniang on Tuesday in Dapitan...

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Spent the day before New Year standing in a dump truck, giving out medicine to the victims of typhoon Seniang. (...) It doesn't seem like much, doesn't it? Wind, rain, land- slipping… Just elements, just nature (bits and pieces we often take for granted simply because they've always been there) and yet when they strike, they reveal everything we've denied, every truth we've covered up for ourselves; this nagging, foreboding truth in the back of our minds: we are fragile and impermanent. And time will eat us all. We'll be holes where a whole used to be- that's what we'll become. When nature laughs its last laugh. When history will take its course. Our grandness, our audacious, triumphant grandness: the structures of our humanity, will be markings on a wall, a tale lost to the ages like the colossal buildings crumbling before wind, before rain, before land- quickly slipping. (...) Makes you think what resolutions to make. Makes you think…

The storms that follow you home. An excerpt

#basically my holiday #seniang #an excerpt