#050: The holiday season we must enjoy
Fifteen (!) OK to BE zines just for YOU, 'A Quiet Unfolding' at the Akdang Pinoy Choice Awards 2025, quick creative work updates, and more tiny yet precious life moments
Hey, there! OK to BE is a Sunday newsletter about reading, writing stories, creating art, collaborating, and being human. If you want to see more of my creative work, visit my page, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and support me on Patreon. Thanks for reading! ^_^
As I once declared in a zine I made a few years ago: it’s OK to be away. (Still true.) I hope you missed me :))
And hello and welcome to you, new subscribers! You’re officially very cool for being here, for supporting my work, and for choosing to read my thoughts ✨
I’ve been quiet, but not idle. After spending a month and so in Japan, I’ve been back home for about two weeks now—gently nursing my post-travel blues and easing myself into this meaningful-and-reflective end-of-year season. Ya know it: slowing down, spending time with everything and everyone that matters, reflecting. (And well, maybe, catching up on my editing gigs :D I’m currently deep in a few manuscripts that I’m excited to see launch into the world next year (future-you, you’re going to love them)
Even so, I wanted to pop in here to wish everyone a happy holiday season. Merry Christmas, if you celebrate! I’ll be back soon to properly catch you up on how this year has been—and I’d love to keep hearing stories from you as well. Two-way street lagi, pls!
Before I go into spaghetti-is-forever, este, rest mode, I didn’t come empty-handed. I’m here bearing some gifts:
Read 15 zines for FREE (Until 12/24 only)
Read them. Enjoy them. Feel them! New zines coming soon~ For more BTS, visit or support me on my Patreon.
In other exciting news!
Thank you for reading and supporting A Quiet Unfolding at the Akdang Pinoy Choice Awards 2025. Our poetry book is one of the finalists in the “Poetry Collection - Backlist” category. On behalf of our a soft landing. community, I’d appreciate it if you could vote for AQU. And your other favorites, too!
That’s all for now! I hope you picked up something fun or useful. Talk again soon!
☀️ KB
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