from a reader of the Babaylan book

I'm only on Page 10 of your book since I got it last night... a very slow read because I can't stop myself from crying all the time... Tears are streaming down my face, tears within tears, and cries within cries, and sobs from more sobs deep within... I always knew as if someone erased my memory that someone was killed in my sleep. I know now what it is. Now I can honor it...weep for it. 

To your: "I am an accident of history, I needed to leave in order to come home again." 

How you echoed my innermost emotions caused a wild drumming inside me, as if I have suddenly sprung a tribe awake.

I must thank you now at page 10. I know I must remember.
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and here's a link to the booklaunch event at Bahay Nakpil on Nov. 29

Another Education is Possible
But first, undo the current system.

I have been receiving emails from a Datu in Mindanao who is part of a movement to "consolidate and confederate the Indigenous People's Communities" all over the Philippines. It is good to know that there is such a movement and am looking forward to learning about this from Datu B who also claims to be a Babaylan. Happy to have this dialogue.

Studying:
Survivance
Manifest Manners
Simulations
Absence as Presence

ahhh, Vizenor!

to the reader of this blog:
things are brewing underneath. language not yet fully formed.
only this: decolonization is shamanic work
i have written about this but not quite within this framework.
so i'm marinating for now.
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yesterday, i facilitated a mini-retreat for local leaders
someone commented afterwards: this feels like therapy.
yes!

Fil Am angel investor and social entrepreneur Yobie Benjamin, spoke to my class today on social entrepreneurship.

Study on K-12 Fil Am Education