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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Not a Village, a Community: Building Thalbach’s Church (1609)

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A glimpse of the Thalbach church and its windows In 1609, it was time to raise the walls on the Thalbach convent church in Bregenz. Much lab...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Singing & Change on World Leprosy Day (1/26/25)

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Images from three Indian Leprosy awareness videos Leprosy (now more properly designated Hansen’s Disease) is a disease of almost overwhel...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

When a 6-year-old brought a Marian Icon to Thalbach (1/22/25)

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Bregenz Parish church (E) and, perhaps, Thalbach (yellow), from Copperplate of M.Meriam, 1643 In July of 1588, Catarina Haidenhoferin from...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Margery Kempe Listens (1/19/25)

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  Image of female pilgrim with "sounds," "melodies," and "Hallucinations" as responding themes "Sum-tyme...
Friday, January 17, 2025

News-as-Opera: Shenton/Steyer’s On Call: COVID-19 (2021) (1/17/25)

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Image includes the 6-box screen of characters and their fictional names Today’s contribution is a review of a pandemic opera – one that I’v...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Documenting Lepers’ Lives: The House is Black (1962)

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Two men in hats on a rubble heap, one playing a wall-attached string instrument I watched the Iranian film “The House is Black” to see if it...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

To Banish the Earworm: "If We Were Married" by Shaina Taub (1/8/25)

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An ear with three arrows containing identical music pointing at it Last night, somewhat to my morning chagrin, I taught “If we were married”...