Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 2
Nothing much
Wednesday.
Thursday, January 9
Surround Sounds
A personal challenge - try and write something every day for January 2025
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I have a busy brain. It chats happily to itself and to me, organising, discussing, replaying, planning, making lists and anything else that it fancies to annoy me with. For a few years now, I have been gently practising the art of silencing the incessant chatter.
Some days it works and others - not so much. I have learnt and regularly practise ... to just listen. Listening to the sounds around and not letting my busy brain discuss them. Listening in silence.
The tearing of the wind as it rustles through trees.
The crackle and bursting of air bubbles when a river tumbles over the rocks.
Birds singing for territory, for mates, to impress.
The sound of boots slurping in mud, crunching on frosted snow, clipping on tarred pavements, scrunching on pebbly tracks.
The drag and whush of the retreating tide on a rocky beach.
The crisp sound as a page is turned in a new book.
The clink of a paint brush as you swirl it in water to clean it.
The quiet breathing and sometimes the deep snoring of a fast asleep cat.
That deep chest thudding roar of rain swollen rivers as they crash down a ravine.
......and just a gentle enquiry - how many of you heard the sound as you read the words?