For whom the bells toll By Bruce Joffe, in Curiosity · 07-05-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
The rhythm of life in Portugal’s villages and small towns is measured more appropriately by “ding-dongs” than “tick-tocks”.
That’s because church bells – not timepieces sans striking mechanisms or apps on digital devices – effectively (and efficiently) call us to come and go, awake and sleep, to accommodate time … with chimes whose claims remain diligent reminders in the foreground of our lives.
After a lifetime living near the deafening roar of airport jets taking off and landing, the blaring alarms of late night and early morning trains approaching crossings closed by mechanical arms, and the deeply mournful bass horns of ships passing in the night harbor, we sought a simpler life with sounds that relax a