About

Tales and Renaissance is a personal blog by Teltel Tagudando, containing essays, poems, songs, and other write-ups of various sorts.

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Hello.

This is Telly (or call me Tel or Teltel), a 25-year-old who is as shy as she is quirky. I love to do a lot of different things, like a 21st-century renaissance woman.

Though work and law school take a huge chunk of my day, I make sure I have time for the things I love, like indulging in my creative side by writing songs and prose, and playing the piano and guitar. And just last year, I was happy to reconnect with one of my hobbies growing up: designing dresses. I loved doing sketches and watching fashion shows on TV when I was around 6 or 7. I also enjoy reading about science and philosophy.

I just find joy in the little things in this world, the moments with our cats, cooking, taking walks in nature, or simply spacing out throughout the day while existing with my loved ones. For me, I hope to have all this with me, to live with more peace, gratitude, and adventure in life.

I will always keep in my mind what my professor in Taxation Law Review told our class during one of our meetings: “You’re young. And it’s okay (if sometimes things don’t go the way you want), you have the whole world in front of you. The world is big.” And yes, I do agree!

Tales and Renaissance

I named my blog Tales and Renaissance because “Tales” sounds like my name, Tel, and the Renaissance is my favorite period in history. Isn’t it fascinating how the culture of classical learning raised the likes of Nicolaus Copernicus, a polymath, who chose to journey with science and arts?

Now about Copernicus, aside from his being a Renaissance man, I also admire him for his contribution to astronomy: the heliocentric model of the solar system. Considering the power and fundamentalism of the disapproving church then, he was not fazed and carried on with his idea of a 180-degree turn from the thousand-year theory that the solar system is Earth-centered. Although not until post-Galileo Galilei, nevertheless did the Copernican Revolution change the world forever. A brave heart indeed.

_{His story taught me that the truths we once knew are as malleable as copper and that even the rigid systems birthed by science may be deconstructed. And lastly, the story of the Renaissance taught me that we may be one, but we can be of many things.}