‘Put our memories, our experience, in writing’
While going through my files of newspaper clippings, I came across Antonio Calipjo Go’s High Blood article titled “Leave a trail: Where we’ve gone, what we did” (Opinion, 12/27/13). I filed it hoping to write a reaction the day I read it. But I did not. So here I am now, writing this letter to let him know that, per his advice, I am preparing to publish a book with this title “A Look Back With Some Regrets.” I hope to launch this on my next birthday, my 94th, God willing, in January 2014.
I agree with Go thoroughly: It is incumbent upon us, now, while we still can, to write about and recall the past, our experiences as we were growing up—especially those of us, the
90-somethings who have gone through all regimes from the post-Spanish colonial period through the so-called democratic American governors-generals, the Quezonian commonwealth government, the Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere, on to MacArthur’s “I shall return,” then to the presidency of Roxas down to the Marcos dictatorship and Edsa 1, then to Erap and Edsa 2, etcetera, etcetera. Whew!
Can you imagine what we who are now in our past 90s had to go through?
So, before we pass into oblivion, let us, as Go suggested, leave a trail like the proverbial snail.
—CONSUELO D. SISON,
