By Bum D. Tenorio Jr. While on a hammock under the himbaba-o tree at home in Gulod, a coastal barrio in Cabuyao, Laguna, I was doing the now normal WFH when something wet and warm dropped on my shoulder. “Swerte yan! Magkakapera ka! (That’s lucky. You’ll have money)” my mother…
Text and photos by BüM D. TENORIO, JR. I was humming “Edelweiss,†alternating it with “Climb Every Mountain†in my mind, the minute the bus stopped at the drop-off point in Salzburg. Ever since I saw The Sound of Music on our neighbor’s black-and-white TV set one Christmas Eve of my…