What a breath of fresh air to read Bebol Carreon's column. I've gotten to the point where hers is the first column that I look for in the Sunstar (only that it doesn't come on a fixed day of the week). Her articulate writing with quotes from authors we've missed in ages past gently draw the reader in. She has a way of looking at the world that makes me smile.
She admits that she is new in this thing but the budding columnist demonstrates her skill for writing about both people and ideas interspersed with the events in the city. I can only assume that it goes back to the way young girls were trained in language in the St. Scholastica's Academy. Way back then, language was definitely considered an art. It still is. Only today, we've mangled it by using mixed dialects in one sentence or chopped up the spelling because of too much texting.
Now why do I consider her writing a breath of fresh air? Let me put it this way - Bebol's musings are the respite I find amidst the stories of politics in Negros on one end and the newfangled social chronicles on the other by Edouard-Garcia-wannabes. This is the quiet place where I stop and smell the roses and daydream back into the Bacolod I once knew. It's the much needed intellectual stimulation which gently massages your thoughts without pressuring you to immediately take sides as most opinion columns beg for.
If you haven't read her articles, it's not too late. Bebol has just begun.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/author/2786/bebol-carreon
She admits that she is new in this thing but the budding columnist demonstrates her skill for writing about both people and ideas interspersed with the events in the city. I can only assume that it goes back to the way young girls were trained in language in the St. Scholastica's Academy. Way back then, language was definitely considered an art. It still is. Only today, we've mangled it by using mixed dialects in one sentence or chopped up the spelling because of too much texting.
Now why do I consider her writing a breath of fresh air? Let me put it this way - Bebol's musings are the respite I find amidst the stories of politics in Negros on one end and the newfangled social chronicles on the other by Edouard-Garcia-wannabes. This is the quiet place where I stop and smell the roses and daydream back into the Bacolod I once knew. It's the much needed intellectual stimulation which gently massages your thoughts without pressuring you to immediately take sides as most opinion columns beg for.
If you haven't read her articles, it's not too late. Bebol has just begun.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/author/2786/bebol-carreon
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