i love to hear its sounds. you know how if you hear a sound for long enough, you get used to it and tune it out and don't really hear it anymore? i wonder what world-sounds we don't hear simply because we've been listening to them since the moment we were born.
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when i am in an excited good mood, or hear some really good music, i feel bigger and feel like i can feel the existence of some beautiful buzzing city-light-lined street in europe somewhere...
i love to imagine and try and feel what is happening elsewhere at this moment:
it is almost midnight. right here. right now.
waves are lapping upon moonlit shores along the edge of the continent of australia...
the first pink rays of sunrise are illuminating planes and forests in brazil...
businessmen are driving past the colliseum in Rome and running into offices to begin their workday...
young people are dancing to throbbing music in nightclubs in new york city in the euphoric wee hours of the morning...
and... the clocks of the globe just struck the hour... a million church bells just echoed and rang out at once...
precisely 9 days have passed since millions here along the pacific coast of america, western canada and mexico shouted happy new year and kissed and drank bubbly drinks...
little children in chicago and lima, peru are sleeping soundly in their beds... while those in athens, greece and vienna, austria and cairo, egypt are studying in school...
fishermen in southeast asia are sweating under a bright hot afternoon sun...
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somebody is walking in the rain
tribes are hunting
sunlight is drying the dew off flowers
someone is witnessing the beauty of a sunset in silent awe
the shuffle of mail and the thud of boxes and the clink of a mailbox shutting can be heard as messages get delivered around the globe
millions of computer mouses are being clicked to receive email... and to open pictures of naked women
babies are being born and crying for the first time
creatures are becoming impregnated as sperm is seeking and penetrating eggs
airplanes and satellites and birds and lost helium balloons are flying around the sky
crickets are chirping
massive clouds of gasses are shifting on jupiter
matter is being sucked into black holes
scientists are devising theories
musicians are forming ideas for songs
punks are moshing
bees are producing honey
snow is melting and creating avalanches
moss is gathering
people are falling in love and saying "i love you"
microscopic cells are forming
atoms are dancing
trees are growing
people are praying to god
people are dying and ending the suffering of old bodies
toys are being played with
fruit is ripening
strings are resonating
buildings are being erected
movies are being filmed
planets are orbiting
people are singing "someone's singing, my lord, kumbaya"
someone's asking someone "what's up" and they are replying "not much"
i am typing into my computer, listening to music in big black headphones, and drinking water while two candles burn in front of me.
and i wonder how i could possibly ever feel tired? how could i ever feel bored?
the world is simultaneously reaching and withdrawing and bouncing like a perpetual motion machine...
Um, wow.
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