From 2015 Gawad Plaridel awardee Ricky Lee (excerpt translated with apologies) “… once, when i was a student and magazine staff writer, i went to the second floor of a building to look out the window… i walked through a glass door…which crashed…many shards of glass perforated my neck, arms, face… the nurse at the clinic asked me, “are you drunk?”…from then on, I was known as someone who would walk through any door… with a poor sense of direction and memory, I always walked through the “wrong door”… I still sometimes enter the wrong car… astonished faces always greet me when I enter the wrong car… in hindsight, i realize that this clumsiness is a blessing: It is important for anyone who wants to write… to keep opening doors — whatever or wherever this door may lead to – a deep ravine, a dark cavern, a dreadful monster…you should never require certainty…be brave — open doors…” – Ricky Lee, 2015 Gawad Plaridel awardee, excerpt from his message, 26 August 2015.