Currently Active Newsletters

Uman (monthly) — January 2022 to present (21 issues)

Uman is the Pangasinan word for change. I started it to keep track of the monthly “changes” I undergo in my projects, studies, and goals but it became this exercise in essay writing that weaves spirituality, walking, writing, and photography.

Likaw (occasional) — October 2022 to present (36 issues)

Formerly “The Long Walk,” Likaw, which is the Pangasinan word for meander, is a newsletter I send occasionally. It contains new or work-in-progress essays, poems, short notes, and photographs.


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  • Uman: Monthly — spirituality × walking × writing × photography
  • Likaw: Occasional — drafts of essays, poems, notes, and photographs × walking × Philippines


Archived Newsletters

Tall Tales: Baguio Walk No. 1 — January 15 to 21, 2024 (5 issues)

A pop-up newsletter for my first week-long walk of Baguio City. In this newsletter, I wrote about how I returned to streets and places I used to frequent as a formed minister of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Roots ྾ Gravel — December 4 to 10, 2023 (8 issues)

A pop-up newsletter for my first week-long walk around Los Baños. The original intention of the walk was to explore a free, creative, and subsistent spirituality through walking around my current town of residence. The essays and photographs diverted from this original intention as the walk progressed.

Lilim (weekly) — May 2021 to August 2022 (32 issues)

Lilim is a Filipino word that means shade. It was a weekly newsletter that ran for three seasons during the pandemic. It began as a documentation of my early walks in Los Baños and evolved into a predecessor of The Long Walk.