PATHLESS TRAVELS

2024-02-202024-02-26

Do bilingual Filipinos enjoy an advantage?

Cordillera Day 2004 with "Tarzan" (Jim Bakker) and Sr. Genny

This blog piece grew from my comment on a humorous post of an FB friend about the bilingualism that comes so naturally to young children growing up in bilingual environments. The humor arose from a meme triggered by a viral news piece, about Princess Charlotte of Wales speaking two languages at age two—to which someone retorted that this was usual among immigrant children but didn’t hug the headlines because they were poor (unlike children of famous royalty).

2023-07-112023-07-14

Tolstoy’s Christian-peasant anarchism

Tolstoy’s Christian-peasant anarchism was more radical than bourgeois liberal reformism but less radical than Marxist proletarian-revolutionary socialism. Lenin recognized Tolstoy’s two-sided role in Russia’s ideological and political spectrum.

Photo. Hertz. Tolstoy on the road from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana.
Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Tolstoy/Chapter_6#/media/File:The_life_of_Tolstoy_091.jpg

2023-05-102024-02-12

Captioning Dorothea Lange

I’ve long wanted to write about my favorite master photographers and their philosophies. Also, having had strong opinions about photojournalism and street photography from way back, I’ve long wanted to write about the absolute need for captions.