‘Kumusta, Kaibigan?’: This children’s book explores grief, repair, and the art of asking
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“Kumusta, kaibigan?” is the kind of greeting that passes between jeepney seatmates, between neighbors over a fence, between friends who have not seen each other in a while and truly mean it when they ask.
Repurposed here as the title of a children’s book — one whose subject is friendship, deforestation, and the communal work of ecological repair — the phrase becomes more deliberate: an address extended toward something that cannot respond, in the hope that the asking itself might
Repurposed here as the title of a children’s book — one whose subject is friendship, deforestation, and the communal work of ecological repair — the phrase becomes more deliberate: an address extended toward something that cannot respond, in the hope that the asking itself might
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