Pilgrimage

Abandoning Tumblr?

Forum Romanum, 2009
©EOP

5 January 2019


After 7 years, I am returning to this blog, expanding its purview a little, and making new posts. For a number of years I had been using Tumblr, but its recent change of policy and apparently arbitrary censorship of posts suggested a search for a new place to post my photos and comments. While the blog I have maintained there, Randomness, is mostly my pictures of buildings, streetscapes, landscapes, architectural elements and works of art, with few photographs of people and none which would fit even the most prudish defitions of pornography, my photos of ancient monuments, statues from classical antiquity and even landscapes have been marked as violating standards. Disgusted, I am considering joining a number of those whose posts I follow and abandoning Tumblr. I have not firmly decided to do so, but in the meantime I am reactivating this blog in order to post my photos and commentary.

Initally this blog was started as a supplement for a course I was teaching on the subject of pilgrimage. That was followed by some postings about pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain and my walks on several of those routes. I am now preparing to spend almost a month in Rome (along with Santiago de Compostela and Jerusalem one of the three great pilgrimage destinations of the Middle Ages). Over the next few weeks, Roman sites and topics will dominate. More to come.