The honesty and pointed self-awareness of Cathy's offering has me thinking twice, and three times more, about the full range of emotions I felt as I made my way through each essay. At once affirming and upsetting... While also, tensioning? Tensionizing? Tensyonado? Ewan ko nga! Nakaka loka talaga! I felt like I was stretching and squeezing past some parts, breath held. Though I'm not yet sure what all, exactly, I was distancing myself from, I'm sure the distance will shrink enough for me to pin it down, eventually. Part of it has to do with being Filipino-American, but not all, I think. And it leaves me considering what it means to live in true and honest relation with one other. So yes, more of this, please! Very very much more :)