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“The idea that people from one culture are barred from understanding people in another culture stems from ignoring the role that unfilled meanings play in much of human learning, especially human learning about cultural practices. If I cannot understand that your words and gestures carry some meaning without already knowing what the meaning is, then […]
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Travel
“‘Place’ is something we carry with us — a summation of our inner memories mapped onto the present landscape as we traverse it.” — Martin [...] Read More»
Bubbles
Why do kids like making/blowing bubbles? Do I still remember the sensation as a small kid blowing my first bubble with just a straw and some soapy wat[...] Read More»
La Frontera
At the boundary of Bolivia and Argentina at La Quiaca I watched Bolivians* crossing the border by walking down the dirt path, hopping across the river[...] Read More»
Roaming
“Here, by the riverbank… I could keep myself busy for months without shifting my position, inclining sometimes more to the right, sometime[...] Read More»
The heart of a sunken city
In ancient times people built peculiar street pattern like a labyrinth to confuse the invaders. Venezia’s maze of narrow streets has the same effect[...] Read More»
A historic theater
Through movies we relive someone’s live, but at the same time also a part of ours. Sometimes it hurts but eventually it finds way to untie the knots[...] Read More»
Silver Linings
The summer of 2015 marked one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in memory for the entire west coast of the US. Countless people/animals were [...] Read More»
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