Lucas is asleep after a busy morning of swim lessons and errand running. Charlie Pasta is napping at my feet. My gentle typing reminds me that I am on borrowed time.
I know school is out because children whiz by on the sidewalk on skateboards, scooters and bicycles chattering at one another.
Cars drive down our street too fast. It’s one of the few things we have always disliked about this neighborhood.
I’m on my second load of laundry for the day and the clothes in the dryer whirl around and around. I can hear zippers and buttons clanging against the metal.
Soon the annoying buzzer will beckon me, but until then I will get lost in Dave Matthews Band’s latest offering, Away from the World. The lyrics to Drunken Solider, a song I have only heard once before are coming out of my laptop and they are stunning and demand my attention:
Make the most of what you’ve got
Don’t waste time being trying to be something you’re not
Fill up your head and fill up you heart and take your shot
Don’t waste time trying to be something you’re not
A large brown van slows to a stop in front of our house and then slowly backs up along the curb. BEEP BEEP BEEP. Alas the delivery is NOT for me.
The quiet bubbling filter on the fish tank is in the background.
An airplane rumbles overhead.
I sneeze and the dog decides he needs to go out.
All of a sudden, as if they planned it, I hear the familiar squeak of my three year old’s bedroom door opening.
What do you hear?
This post was written for Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt #2 Listen to the sounds in your house for 5 or 10 minutes. Write about what you hear. (Inspired by The Aums)
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Right now, all I hear is my typing on the keyboard and the fan. Yes, it’s nap time!
Right now the TV is blaring in my ear. . . And the AC is humming behind me.
I’m really just wishing for a little peace and quiet. . .
I hear the sounds of 1:30 a.m….quiet. I also hear the pounding of my heart from the mocha I drank at 11 p.m. I love your take of this prompt!
I’m sitting here in the quiet of earlier morning with the crickets singing outside and the motor of a little fish tank humming to my right. Other than that blissful silence. I love your sounds. All very comforting ones. Especially the sounds of the children leaving school.
I hate delivery trucks that beep when they beep not for me.
How cool, love the walk through your morning. Right now all I hear is the clicking of my keyboard, love the quiet part of my morning.
Right now I hear a co-worker coughing as though a lung is about to literally shoot out (and if it does, it’ll likely land on me because the person is not bothering to cover).
We’re having issues lately with airplanes (and helicopters, amublances, loud cars, motorcycles UGH). Everything seems to be waking Z and though he loves planes when he’s awake and sees them in the sky, the sound of them at night are starting to frighten him.
I ADORE those lyrics (and kinda needed them right now).
Wonderful! I could ‘hear’ everything as you wrote it.
Yes, like Jen said, I could hear it all…and imagine it all too! I love when it’s quite and I just listen to the house…it’s soothing, isn’t it?
Yesterday, while all three girls were in school, I heard the hum of a silent, kid-less house and rather than it soothing me, it made me anxious. Okay, maybe I liked it a little bit but I missed the pitter patter and jabber of my little 4 year-old while she was preschool 🙂
Amazing lyrics.
I am not listening to such amazing things right now, but I will take those words to heart 🙂
Your description sounds very similar the sounds around our house at that time. I love Dave Matthews. One of my favorites!
I really like the lyrics in that song. Reminds me of the Steve Jobs quote I have on my email signature…”Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
I love those lyrics!
Right now I hear the baby snoring and the crickets outside of the window. I’m kind of in love with the peacefulnes of it all.
Ah the familiar sounds of home. I love this because even though I have never been in your house, I can imagine it. It sounds like cozy warm home.
It’s 3:30 a.m. and I’m sitting on the couch trying to get over my jet-lag while everyone else in the house is asleep! All I can hear are the birds chirping in the garden! The sun is soon going to rise. I can’t wait for the girls to wake up! They are going back to school today after having spent a month with me, The house is going to be way too silent! I love this post and the way you captured the sounds in your house. I love the lyrics too! xx
I hear the Lily Allen Pandora station playing on my computer. I’m at work typing away on my keyboard so that’s pretty loud at the moment. Every once in awhile, I’ll hear one of my co-workers also still here at work at 8pm. Yep, pretty exciting sounds indeed…NOT! :-p
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