Sounds of Home (Santa Fe, NM)
· For the past week, a church bell has rung every morning at 6:00 a.m. On Sunday and Monday, I was startled awake, confused and pissed off. Eventually I stopped hearing it, and slept through the chiming.
· I’ve listened to ‘The Album Leaf’ all day. Even on my short bike ride to meet friends for lunch, I put my headphones on and smiled.
· And when I returned from lunch, the neighbor’s yippy dogs barked at me while I pulled my bike in.
· I remember hearing coyotes, and occasionally peacocks, when I lived in Tesuque.
· In the mornings, I make coffee and the sound of the percolating begins. A wonderful smell follows.
· Last night, every time I went outside for a smoke, I could hear loud hip hop music coming from a house party.
· Sometimes, while sitting on the front porch, we can hear the hamburger joint a few blocks over calling out order numbers over their loud speaker.
· And in the afternoons, while the sun is setting, you can hear the breeze blowing through the Australian-like trees. I imagine that we’re in Australia, or Africa, and animals are climbing in their leaves. I often trick myself into seeing a Koala Bear.
Afterthought: Crickets chirping. Dogs barking.
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I lived in the Tesuque! I heard coyotes and also, terrifyingly, screech owls.
Remind me to email you this Album Leaf tune I love….
Oh, and when the Physicist and I lived across the street from the burger joint? It took me WEEKS to figure out they were calling out order numbers–I thought it was some weird kind of boring bingo name where the digits always increased (dur).
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confession: it also took me weeks [read months] to figure out that they were calling out order numbers at the burger joint.
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I’m so jealous. I can’t wait to move to New Mexico!
The sounds I hear: construction, crazy people outside my window wandering in the middle of the street, honking, etc. I would love it if I heard a peacock.
c.s. — yes, leaving behind the city was a wonderful change for me. i’ve been there, done that re: construction, honking and crazy people.
makes me wish i was sitting outside at dusk… maybe today i will.