Friday, February 22, 2013

The Bells


I love many aspects of this place, but the hearing the bells of the old churches holds a special place. I don't know why, I'm not very religious, but there is something soothing and haunting at the same time to think that men and women for hundreds of years have heard these bells ring, their sounds carried across the rooftops of the old city. What did those people think of the bells? Were they a symbol of a church that dominated their lives? Did they represent their connection to the divine? Or do they hear them as I hear them now, bells that count the hours of our lives and mark our journey day-to-day through this life?

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