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Archived Newsletters #

The Long Walk (occasional) — October 2022 to Occtober 2025 (45 issues) #

The Long Walk was a newsletter featuring essays on walking, literature, photography, and spirituality. It also contained announcements on upcoming walks, new projects, and new writings.

Check the The Long Walk archives here.

Umán (monthly) — January 2022 to May 2025 (25 issues) #

Umán is a Pangasinan word that means to change, repair, or repeat. I started it in 2022 to keep track of the monthly progress of my projects and studies but it later became this experimental weaving of the creative artifacts I produce from my daily studies, readings, journaling, and walks.

Check the Umán archives here.

but Overall is beyond me (bOibm) — January 25 to 31, 2025 (7 issues) #

A pop-up newsletter for my second week-long walk of Los Baños that ran from January 25–31, 2025. Unlike Roots ྾ Gravel, bOibm featured shorter and slower walks in six of the most silent routes in LB.

Check the but Overall is beyond me archives here.

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 former minister of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Check the Tall Tales: Baguio Walk No. 1 archives here.

Roots ྾ Gravel (R྾G) — 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.

Check the Roots ྾ Gravel archives here.

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.

Check the Lilim archives here.