Old So What

  Unbelievably noisy.   It didn’t used to be, and it’s not just all the dogs barking, who suddenly showed up in direct response to the growth of crime in the township. No, it’s the trucks. We are Truck Central. Garbage, recyclable, lawn care, mowing services, pesticide, fuel, flower and gift delivery, elder transportation, huge construction trucks, paving trucks, cement mixing trucks, tree cutting trucks and a school bus (not technically a truck it’s true) which I reported and was illegally parked in front of my house for a month. You can see that we are inundated. It’s impossible to concentrate sometimes the decibel level is so high! My cat appeared bleary-eyed the other day from a nap in my blankets, which she was unsuccessfully attempting. What’s the problem, her black and furious eyes seemed to ask. I counted and there were at least seven incidents involving trucks just on that day alone. It’s probably certain that most of the same trucks were involved bu...

There is nothing better for the soul,  than the quiet serenity  of watching snow fall. 

  Is it my imagination or has the world suddenly gotten even louder? It was loud enough.  Now it’s impossible even to try to hear yourself think! Traffic honks, siren blasts, dog barks, fox screams (yes, they’re out there), tree cutters and tree removers, street cleaner machines, delivery packages thrown in the general direction of the front door, children yelling or swearing.  All I want is a little:  Quiet! Stop the noise, please, at least for a portion of every day. We need mandated quiet spilling out of the windows and doorways of our homes, and out onto the streets.  So, we can be calm, rational, less crazy, less harassed!  We need more of the beautiful sound of quiet, which is actually the absence of sound. The absence of sound is a glorious, peaceful thing! I observe that animals seem to prefer quiet (with the exception of those of them actually making noise themselves.)