Greetings! Merry post-Christmas, pre-New Year! Here’s a bonus episode of Planet Noun to end the year!
It’s an interview I found so interesting and relevant to the holidays, I couldn’t wait!
Question: What are some of YOUR favorite holiday traditions?
When my siblings and I were younger, my parents would always pack a brown paper lunch sack with natural treats…. an apple…an orange… unshelled walnuts, pecans and almonds. One of my parents even snapped a photo of me dancing around our green shag-carpeted living room holding one of those bags on Christmas Day in 19-something-ty something.
That’s an example of a gift given to me…. But what about family traditions surrounding gift-giving to others? What about traditions involving family members who are far away—separated not only by land, but oceans?
Well, I learned something new in this interview with Illinois based photographer and artist Jason Reblando. He wrote a piece for CityLab about special boxes that members of the Filipino diaspora send home each year for Christmas.
Find more about what Reblando learned about balikbayan boxes in the piece he wrote for City Lab. Get the link at Planet Noun-dot-com.
