To those who first signed up, thanks for sticking it out. Welcome to everyone else who has subscribed since Issue 1 came out. The idea as this is evolving, is for (fingers crossed!) a newsletter to coincide with my weekly column, so on Wednesdays; perhaps another one on Mondays to track the emerging presidential campaign (at least from now to May, 2022); and a weekend newsletter on more esoteric things including passion projects. My passion project happens to be The Philippine Diary Project, which I set up in April, 2008 (moving to its own domain in September, 2013) and continue maintain.This project aims to make diaries written by both famous and unknown Filipinos, and foreigners writing about the Philippines, available to the public. It is a non-profit site. As much as possible, diaries that are out of print,  released only in limited print runs, or or which were published online in defunct websites, have been included in order to more fully disseminate those diaries. This diary also features diaries that have never been published either in part or in full. Diaries made available in digital copies in institutional sites, whether libraries or archives, have also been included.We welcome committed volunteers and those willing to lend assistance scanning, encoding, and proofreading entries. I'm very grateful that so far, it's managed to have been cited not just in popular articles and blog entries but in scholarly journals and publications as well.