Discovering Culture

I love newspapers, ironically not because of the news, but because of the in depth articles about things I’m interested in. A good article for me has a lot of text and often it makes me want to travel, maybe it’s about a family thats planning a trip or about a gallery somewhere that sounds interesting. And it should have large photographs taken by people that have ambitions beyond simply “capturing reality”.

These articles are few and far between, you might think, but actually there’s quite allot of them, you just need to take the time too look. Sunday is the perfect day to go on such an exploration, sit down in your favorite chair with a cup of tea and dig in. The good article turns up in a lot of strange places, it might be in a paper more known for writing about car crashes and celebrities than anything with substance. It might actually conceal itself as story about a celebrity, celebrities sometimes have stories to tell as well, not just gossip. It might even turn up in one of those free papers that you get in cities around the world, it’s very gratifying to find good articles in places like that. Come to think of it, it’s very gratifying to find good articles anywhere!

Another nice place to read a good article is on the train at night after a long visit to the big city, traveling by train is very stimulating, the landscape that flies by keeps your brain alert without taking the focus away from the words in the paper. This and the fact that you are basically confined to the place you are sitting gives you an opportunity to digest the meaning of the article in ways you might not do elsewhere.