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AKA Damon Arvid. Under-the-radar writer, musician. Let's keep it that way. The cloud novels and other highlights are being collected at DamonArvid.com. To access all the music and Avocado Sun, click the big black box below.

Fabric - Summon These Days (Music)

Stillness in time - the Quezon market 

2/12/2016

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Along the treelined canal where people work and play, life goes on with an undercurrent that has more ties to past realities than present disruptions. I encounter tattered, almost pagan Catholic votives that protect, a cock being groomed for the fight. 
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Above, a Santa Nino ("little Christ"): many families pass these on through the generation, as a way of protecting the home. In the market, these seems to indicate that the goods are of good, honest quality.  A parade of all the Santa Ninos in the baranguay with floats, taken to the Church where they are blessed by the priest.

I buy carrots, bananas, dalandan, okra. I stop too long to gaze at ancient herbs and votives, an ancient mirror that I at first mistake for hanging fish. A kid comes by and points me to other, more creepy objects high above - they were taken out at the recent Santa Nino festival to "let the baby Jesus play." I emerge with a shiver into daylight.
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