I planned to watch this year. Maybe it was lack of competition from central air units, but this summer’s been all about sound. Here’s a baker’s dozen of my favorites:
- “Goin’ out!” followed by the banging of a door
- Frogs. Oh, how I love their way of filling the air with song.
- Birds. Ditto.
- Cicadas. The seventeen-year variety was novel enough and loud enough that they didn’t make me sad.
- The mews of newborn kittens, a sound we haven’t had here in five years
- The cries and rustlings of our newborn nephew
- Loons
- Motorboats
- Fishing line spinning out over the water
- Waves lapping against the rocky shore
- Children splashing in lakes, pools, and ponds
- “One more chapter?” over and over again as we read through Tuck Everlasting after breakfast
- Laughter
And you? What’s your summer soundtrack so far? Are there sounds you’d like to hear more of? There’s time left. Me? I’d take more laughter.