Our Home

September 1982 to July 1985

Our Home Photos from 1982-85 - Click to Expand

Film photographs, digitally restored. Fine details—especially faces, numbers & letters—may appear distorted when enlarged or expanded.

Children walking along the road above the garden, between black-and-yellow roadside posts. Our house and its flowering front garden, with green hills in the background. A cream Land Cruiser carrying windsurfing boards beside a silver car in the driveway. A boy beside the cream Land Cruiser, loaded with windsurfing boards outside the house. A white flatbed truck on the road beyond the garden and driveway. The house and garden with a long pole leaning onto the lawn and the mine hillside behind. A boy holding a birthday cake on the garden path outside the house. A man and woman standing together beside the porch and garden. The house and driveway seen from the road, surrounded by tropical trees. The green-roofed house beyond flowering garden plants, with mountains behind. A boy standing behind a papaya tree and a small planted garden patch. A boy and woman kneeling beside plants in the garden. The empty driveway and stone-faced carport, framed by trees. A man crouching beside pineapple plants and holding a pineapple. Family and friends gathered around the dining table beside a decorated Christmas tree. A boy holding a bunch of bananas among banana plants in the garden. A man holding a golf club and a woman standing together on the lawn outside the house. Children gathered around a birthday cake on the dining table. An orange-and-white cat standing on a desk beside a lamp and radio. The curving driveway leading to the house, bordered by tropical plants. Rain falling on the garden and flooded lawn, viewed from the covered porch. A man standing beside a red Land Cruiser carrying windsurfing boards in the driveway. Three boys standing together on the path beside the house. A boy holding a large bundle of freshly pulled plants in the garden.

Our Home at Marcopper

Our house at Marcopper was much more than the place where our family lived. It was the center of my daily life on Marinduque—a familiar and welcoming place to return to after school, swimming, golfing, or exploring the island.

Every part of the property seemed to offer another possibility. The bedrooms and den became places for games, music, drawing, school projects, and long conversations. The driveway, rooftop, garden, bodega, and surrounding yard became extensions of the house, providing space to experiment, invent, collect things, and allow imagination to take over. It was a home that always seemed full of activity.

Looking back, I remember more than the physical rooms. I remember the feeling of safety, freedom, and belonging that the house provided. It was where family life and friendship came together, where ordinary days became adventures, and where so many of the ideas and shared jokes recorded in my journals began. The house was not simply where we lived during our years at Marcopper—it was the heart of that chapter of my life and one of the places that made Marinduque truly feel like home.

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Our Home Photos from 1982-85

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