Bum Tenorio

Lockdown conversations with my mother

Lockdown conversations with my mother

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…
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The Sound of Salzburg

The Sound of Salzburg

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…
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