#shared identity

[patrickbrianmooney]

Somewhere, when she'd still been working security contracts, she'd seen an interview with an old, smiling imam, whose name she didn't remember. The one thing he'd said that stuck with her was, I am a human being. Anything that happens to human beings could happen to me. One time and another in the years since, she'd taken comfort from that. Or warning. People fall in love, so maybe I will too. People get jobs, so maybe I will too. And people get sick. People have accidents. And now, she supposed, people are divided from their families by war and history. And so that could happen to me too.

James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (2017), ch 42

[ph-cultural-values]

Kapwa (Sense of a Shared Identity)

This is the core of the Filipino psychology in which people have relations with their kapwa (one of us) and hindi kapwa (not one of us). Kapwa being connected, from joining with to being with others. Hindi kapwa is also kapwa but it is about people that you are not close with. Hindi kapwa starts from being civil, then integration and assimilation, to conformity and unity.

[lgbtq-archives]

[transpersonable-blog]

Time isn’t without you.

Radio orange playing during your morning reboot

Radiating heat on our breathing skin

The darkness cold dissipates through the orbit of your eyes

The dream recital in our heads like an invisible prism.

Underneath the dirtied boot of your foe

A printed fossil of a blossoming manuscript

One in which includes you and ours

The hours of passing whims and undying batteries

Honey-glazed apples, and ‘sharpied’ documents stapled together

Lip stains of unborn romance, and reverberations of cursive love

Insinuating a unison of disparate youthful encounters

The older our souls will it with natural cadence.

To obscure has only gotten me so far

Now I must witness myself

Yet to find clarity

In our unwavering shared self

The dawning hour of ourselves.

Ourself.