…One Less Scene

Here’s an email I received from my Dad:
“Hey Forest,
One of the cool things we got to experience while here was all of the frenzy surrounding Cebu’s fiesta, occuring this week. We walked the route of the religious procession from the city’s basilica yesterday, along with 1.5 million other filipinos. We’ve skipped the parades of [...]

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My Dad sent me a slide show he made up that documents some of his farm adventures in the Philippines. Months ago, he asked me to send him a new bar and chain for a chainsaw he had, in order to clear some of the 50-foot bamboo plants that are everywhere. I was pretty slow [...]

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     My dad lives on the island of Mindanao, the largest of the Philippine islands. Mindanao has been making headlines lately because of its Muslim separatist group, the MILF. MILF represents the militant faction of the large Muslim population on the island; recently a long-standing cease-fire with government forces deteriorated, and now there are big [...]

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I recently saw a documentary called “Commune”, that was about a group of people that inhabit a piece of land in a remote spot in California called Black Bear Ranch. The community was (and is) a radical collective of misfits, complete with activists on the run from the FBI, nudists, poets, farmers, and children. In [...]

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My Dad recently moved to the Phillipines to work on a farm with his girlfriend. Before he left, we sat down and had a few beers while I asked him about what it was like to evade the Vietnam draft. As always, he made it seem like no big deal, but his refusal to obey [...]

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