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Monday, June 15, 2026

entry arrow6:47 PM | Hinay-Hinay Lang...

Finally letting my mindscape, and my life, return back to normal after the beautiful tumult of the past two weeks: a workshop and a home improvement project following each other was an upheaval I had no idea would take so much out of me, I actually ended up sick for a day or two, mostly from the stress and the unbearable heat. But I’m happy with the results, and I’m about to pick up where I left off…

Truth to tell, when I was in the middle of the grind, of the mess of home improvement last week — for example, bringing out all my books slowly, by small batches, to a corner of the anteroom so that the carpenters and painters could do work — I had to summon all the patience I could muster, despite being so tired and stressed out, by repeating a simple mantra: "Hinay-hinay lang." [To translate: Just surrender to the slowness.]

It helped.

It kept me sane.

And that is what I'm also telling myself right now as I return back to normal: hinay-hinay lang.

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