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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2024 Silences and Sounds (12/31/24)

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The 2024 blog word-cloud As 2024 finishes up, I've been looking back on the year’s journey—its silences, its sounds, and the moments i...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Writing is momentum (12/28/24)

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Newton's cradle with an arrow for the impulse of "writing" Why write a blog? In all the busy times, with all the other thing...
Monday, December 16, 2024

“Aged documents” in the Thalbach Monastery Chronicle (12/16/24)

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  1728, 1336, 1338, 1340, 1655, 1532, 1557, 1612, 1597: How old is your evidence? The Chronicle of Thalbach is a mass of contradictions. (...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Starting from a place of blah (12/11/24)

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  A "no entry" red circle over a parallelogram labeled "The Blah Zone" When you're caught in the blah zone—the ...
Friday, December 6, 2024

“Bulgy enlargement” and medieval hearing loss: Insights from Flohr and Kierdorf (2022)

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  Bulgy enlargement of ear canal signaled by black arrows (from Flohr and Kierdorf 2022) This post is a response to (and a brief meditation...
Monday, December 2, 2024

Smooth or Spiky? November’s Sound Samples (12/2/24)

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A cylinder ("smooth") and a spiky call-out box ("spiky") As I have sought to be more intentional in my listening (and as...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

There is no quiet, no silence anywhere within! (11/28/24)

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Contradicting the title (There is no quiet!), a solo turkey walks across a park meadow with a tree backdrop I’m quoting Ovid as the title ...