Writings
Sul Ya Man returns to the questions left open in Excelsior, from faith and ancestry to survival, community, identity, and the labels people learn to live under.
Featured Essay
SEPTEMBER 24, 2026
Some wounds close without returning us to who we were before. Sul Ya Man looks at what restoration means after hardship has already changed the person carrying it, and whether healing is really a return or the beginning of something different.
People hear the word healing and usually think return. Return to normal. Return to the person you were before the loss, before the betrayal,
A dollar does not know what neighborhood it is in. People do. That is the part that matters. Somebody gets paid on Friday, buys
Peace sounds good until it has to live with people. Everybody can say the word. Governments say it. Families say it. Preachers say it.
Call somebody a name long enough and people start treating the name like evidence. That has always interested me. A person does something, then
Writing is my passion. I said that plainly in Excelsior, and I meant it. Before the alphabet was sitting where it sits now, people
Sleep is ordinary only because we do it so often. That is what makes it easy to overlook. You lie down, the room is
