Filipino

When I am too tired to decipher my parents’ conversations in Filipino, I focus on how they speak. Intonations rising and falling like a tide. Enunciation everywhere, most syllables stressed. Voices raised even as they say something loving. They talk quickly, confident in their pronunciations of words that would trip up my tongue.
Isabella Peralta
January 7, 2021
Jaime Woo
June 27, 2014
Alec MacDonald
May 15, 2012

For Earnest Concepcion, the only constant is change.

Rebecca
January 11, 2010