“Lately, my preoccupation with names has become an obsession.”
— Penelope V. Flores, Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University
Read the rest of her interesting article, How Filipinos Got Their Surnames, in Filipinas Magazine, here.
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And the results are out now.
Read. Read. Read.
Thank you forever, Lillian Howan, for soliciting a piece.
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Self is in the issue of Jellyfish Review curated by Grace Loh Prasad: SIGN. The pieces are so delicious and fun. All are really different, showing what self has always known: FLASH RULES. Grace’s opening essay is kick-ass.
(BTW: Seventeen Syllables will be reading at San Francisco LITCRAWL, 19 October, 6:30 – 7:30, at FELLOW, 820 Valencia Street, on the theme: Strangers and Ghosts! These readings are always SRO. Be sure and COME EARLY!!!)
Another story, Tu-an Ju (dystopian science fiction), just came out in Vice-Versa, the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s e-zine. The theme for the issue was Otherworld/Underworld, a theme self felt could have been tailor-made just for her. Thank you to Pat Matsueda, Lillian Howan and Angela Nishimoto for putting this issue together.
And vol. 3 of msaligned is coming soon! Thanks again to Lillian Howan for soliciting a piece specifically for this volume, and Pat Matsueda for editing the series.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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Luisa Igloria In Her Kingdom Excerpt from Passing Inspection (First posted in Via Negativa, 22 June 2019)
When my father’s only sister migrated to East
Lansing, Michigan forty years ago, she hand-carried
the x-ray film of her lungs in a large brown Manila
envelope, as proof she didn’t have tuberculosis
or any other malignant respiratory condition
that in the US CDC should be aware of. She came
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Self is joining a new Photo Challenge: Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #50 : TREES.
Thanks to viveka of My Guilty Pleasures for making self aware of this photo challenge.
The pictures below are from a trip to Prague that she took in late May with her niece, Irene.
1. Trees, Prague, May 2019 (next to the Spanish Synagogue)
2. Last Sunday in May 2019: Walking by the National Theatre, Prague
3. Afternoon Cruise Along the Vltava River
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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Self loved this tracking of a moment — the musing, melancholy tone.
Posted in Haiku
“Sundays, yes, those fun days” Gun Roswell
Sundays
Take a walk long outside
Seaside, a long stride, up
The hill and down to the beach
Scenery to be seen, withJust one scene, nature and
Man made structures, side by side
Hard to divide, growing togetherOver the years, soon there
Is nothing to separate them, under cover
From prying eyes, but alasI am here now and
I spy, before it all disappears in
To the background of nature
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- For this week’s challenge, point your camera at something or someone that puts a smile on your face (or just show a smiling face).
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Here are three things that made self smile this week:
Her backyard iris: They started blooming about two weeks ago.
Backyard Iris: 4 April 2018 This little lady in her side yard:
Self is trying to train her ivy to go UP the fence! A new welcome mat! YAY! Spring is sprung!
New Season, New Welcome Mat! Here are other WordPress reasons to SMILE:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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More irises began blooming in the side yard today:
Blooming Today: Saturday, 31 March 2018 Which photo do you prefer, the blurry or the sharp?
For more gorgeous flowers, here’s a link to Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 