Thursday, April 10, 2025

Bells

There is something about bells — here’s some from Rome:

The orchestration and playing of bells seems to hail something of significance.  Often, it appeals to our sense of the historical.  But, it uses sound to symbolize that something involved also meets the present. And, because of that dynamic, it extends something into the future. Perhaps, one the more significant points of history is what it speaks to us about today.  Bells can call us to some of history’s voice.

Visual imagery works the same dynamic (even if not quite as effectively as sound).  Here’s some we’ve seen this week:

Rome, Italy