AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Harry Shum, Jr.: On Earth and sometimes Mars

hippochampus: Leaving bootprints on
the ground like an astronaut
on my own planet.
With additional reporting by Melissa G. Bagamasbad: Chino Roque, in foreground, is part of a three-man team from the Philippines that included Evan Ray Datuin (left) and Ramil Santos (center). Photo by Bernard Testa, InterAksyon.com.

Walang ligaya sa lupa na hindi dinilig ng luha.

Filipino Proverb: There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.