Voyaged

One of my ancestral lands is Greece, and I have visited this eerily non-European-looking European country with its strange architectures. I went through the sunny islands and the mainland. A favourite travelogue is The Olive Grove by Katherine Kizilos, a Greek-Australian who voyaged in the off-season. Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea fictional series is reminiscent of this magical land. I love the Mediterranean climate.

In elementary, high school, and a bit later, I studied irreality in the forms of fantasy and science fiction. When I voyaged to Japan, I found out that there was reality that was really interesting that I could not find elsewhere, and I learned about Buddhoanimism. Nevertheless, even as a child, I already had a tendency towards Buddhoanimism. My Philippine nickname was "Nonong." With this nickname, I intuitively learned Zen without knowing the concept really existed, and I learned about actual Zen only later as a teenager and beyond.

In July, new genetic research suggested indigenous South Americans voyaged to islands in the South Pacific 300 years before the arrival of European colonists.