The funny thing about love is that it knows no boundaries. It escapes the confines of societal norms and cultural divides. That is the story of my parents. The unlikely meeting between a Filipino farmer turned sailor and a Korean art student Filipinos are a product of their indigenous heritage and colonization by Spain and …
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Eleuterio Navalta Deperio, My Father
My father was born on February 20th, 1941 in the Zambales Province of the Philippines. Like my mother, my father grew up during a period of war. In my father’s case, it was World War II and it’s aftermath. The Philippines and other Pacific Islands were strategic for both the Axis (Japan) and Allied powers …
Guilt has No Boundaries
I was spoiled and soft as a young child. And let me be clear that being spoiled does not always equate with wealth. My sister and I lived in US Navy housing up until I was around 6 years of age…. essentially subsidized housing for lower income enlisted Navy families. Anyhow, I had a birthday …
Native River
Sara Zielinksi wrote “Animal Magnetism: How Salmon Find Their Way Back Home” for NPR in 2013. She described the mystery of the Red Sockeye Salmon and their herculean task of traveling thousands of miles back to their “native river” (birthplace) to spawn and die. Somehow, the location of their “native river” is imprinted when they …
Priceless Urn
Tom Jackman wrote a great piece in the Washington Post on August 2, 2020, Daughter of RFK seeks family heirloom from “Hickory Hill,’ but current owner won’t give it up. Ethel Kennedy, after deciding to sell the estate, told each of her children that they could pick one item from the estate and take it …
Poong Ja Kim, my mother
My mother, Poong Ja Kim was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. Her birth date was July 20th, 1940. She grew up in the midst of the Korean War. My aunt would tell us stories of running through the streets with the sounds of bombs and gunfire behind them. I can only imagine what a …
Kiss Fascination
When I was between 7-8, circa 1977-1978, I had this fascination with the rock band KISS. I used to walk to the Sears from my house and would head straight for the music section to peruse any KISS albums they had. The selection varied day to day and the sheer excitement of not knowing what …
Hard to be original
So now I just found out that both No Time to Mourn and Childhood Lost are also book titles. Can’t win here. So now my domain site is Childhood Gone. Hope this will be the final one. Obviously I am a novice at this but better to make mistakes early than late. The idea of …
Diaryofapig
For months I realized that Diary of A Pig is actually the same title for a selection of children’s books. And immediately I felt stressed about possible copyright infringement issues and it has taken me 5 months to fix it and change the site to No Time to Mourn. It took me 5 months because …
My First Blog Post
This is my first blog and I have no idea if anyone will ever read my posts or not. A little scary to put yourself out there. But here I go. Many years ago, I was with a real estate agent and she started probing about my past. She was puzzled how I was Asian …
Childhood lost 