Bearded Ladies, Angels, and Sweat
December 27th 2018 I caught myself staring at a man/woman with a suspicious looking beard. It had been painted on his/her face—a face that looked decidedly feminine.
Yeah, it’s a woman, I concluded.
And so were about half of the dozen or so costumed Josephs I saw milling about in Saint Sebastian’s Church outside of Chalakudy, Kerala. Joseph—as in Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus.
The family next door had to
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