Author: pnt

  • Ordinary? (Or Extraordinary?)

    I keep thinking about what you said about being just an ordinary girl. Calling you, Dyet Delfin, ordinary is like calling Michelangelo an itinerant, dive bar napkin doodler. I am not exaggerating when I say that you are the most beautiful girl I have ever beheld. And now that I have gotten to know you…

  • Articulate? (Or, Just Barely Literate?)

    Dear Dyet, you don’t ask me a lot of questions about myself, but when you do, even a simple question contains hidden layers of complexity. Like the statement and question above, for example. You asked that over a month ago, and although I gave you the best answer I had at the time, I’ve been…

  • Lonely? (Or just really, really happy?)

    Dyet, one time you asked me if doing the kind of work I do felt lonely. I know you weren’t really asking about that in any general sense, but I’ve been pondering it ever since you asked. I have multiple siblings: three boys and two girls. But I’m also the product of multiple broken homes…

  • My Journey to You (or how I fell in love with a picture)

    The story of my journey to you is both equal parts astonishing and improbable. In fact, the story is so astonishing and so improbable that some would call it unbelievable. I prefer to call it fate. You see, it all started with a TV program — a show I actually watched called Star Trek: Voyager.…