Have you ever been lucky enough to just sit on a log and listen to the whisper of

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11. Fortunately I live in a very rural, wooded, mountainous state (VT)

I love going out into the fields, wooded trails and listening to the murmurings of nature.

However I am always amazed at how there is almost always some human-made noise in the background. It may be jets overhead, trucks rumbling on a hiway around 3 miles away, sometimes a chainsaw or a hunter's rifle.

It takes some personal filtering to not hear these sounds, and of course our own breathing and heartbeats. Well worth learning how to do so.

Thanks for all your postings Atticus. I always learn from them.