Profuse Ponderings

Platform dedicated for my thoughts.

[profuseponderings]

Anyone still around? 

[teachingliteracy]

[niktipolos]

Language is a pleasure, after all. Bilingualism strikes me as a kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors associated with letters and words, instead of hearing melodies, what I hear with language is the play and echo of the other language. The option to say it differently, and thus to live it differently. Language is not only a means of communication or description. It’s a framework in which we process existence. Yi writes: “It is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet it is impossible in my native language.” As every bilingual person and translator knows, there are certain words—a feeling, a way of being—that is absent in one language but perfectly brought to life in another. A word that, by existing, gives permission to be.  What if you need that which does not exist in your language?

Mother Tongue, Yoojin Grace Wuertz. (via kuanios)

[williamhereford]

6am in Nagano…  I shot these all within 1 block of each other on the same street while traveling on assignment last month through Japan.  

[booknerdstudies]

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

—Saint Augustine of Hippo

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Classroom, Palestine, 1900

[alecsgrg]

By: Lennart Pagel

[nature-and-landscapes-on]

[onlycheffings]

[reneegabriela]

[dennybitte]

living sky

by Denny Bitte

[desflorecia]

[cestvibe]

[mitten]

[biisousss]

[artforwellness]

[hijabandthecity-deactivated2018]