What Dies With the Old by Avril Shakira Villar
Photo Source: Unsplash There is a question that appears with surprising regularity on Filipino social media pages, on grandchildren’s blogs, on the forums of overseas Filipino workers separated from their elders by distance and time zones. The question takes many forms, but it is always essentially the same question: “How do I get my lola to tell me her stories before it is too late?” It is a question that reveals, in its urgency, something people already understand: that the knowledge a...