Tag: Penek Busay

Recovery

The Waterfalls Are Calling Me Back: Eighteen Years After I Bled on Penek Busay

“Penek Busay this weekend. You in?” The ad popped up in my feed three days ago, and I swear my knees twinged in response. Not pain —more like muscle memory wrapped in scar tissue and eighteen years of stories I’ve told about that trek. My thumb hovered over the keyboard. In 2007, I bled all …...

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Essays, Field Notes

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Bone Doc and Team TAMAC goes Penek Busay!

September 22, 2007 “Maupod ko sa Penek Busay Dokie, upod ka man? (I’m going to the Digos river trek Dokie! Are you coming with us?)” These excited words of Sir Joy surprised me because a day before I never thought we’d push trough with this trek. “Cge ah! Upod ta! (Yes we’re going!) I bewilderingly...

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