[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. I can sit in my garden and without realizing what it is that's missing I can hear what bird song actually sounds like, there is a deep silence that seem to go on forever. The NY Times's The Lede blog had a poignant video someone made in Garden Valley in the U.K.--dunno where that is-- Somewhere in Sussex apparently, nice part of the world, close to the south coast. Seems like everyone is noticing this silence, I sat and watched a cricket match on the village green yesterday it was like travelling back in time to a much better age, you could hear the birds in the woods from fields away. It really is striking. I'd love to think it's the start of a social movement that tries to reclaim the skies for the sake of our sanity but, realistically, the summer holidays will start soon and it'll be business as usual. And then work will start on the new high speed railway that will run right past our cricket pitch with trains every 15 mins going to Birmingham at 250mph (why?) You can't stop progess. of a blackbird singing at dawn, something he apparently never normally hears uninterrupted because of the jets flying over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wytoOvrVCQ I grew up in New York City and was totally inured to the constant sound of airplanes. Where I am now on the Jersey Shore, there's maybe one a week or so that comes over, and it always feels like a big intrusion. So I can sympathize.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, m 13 meowthirteen@ wrote: Cities promote monkey mind. Little itty bitty towns have peace and bliss that promotes serenity. My opinion. Oh yea. This is definitely the case. How one raises kids etc. has nothing to do with it. Itty bitty towns are just magical, idyllic, paradise - almost entirely devoid of problems. (?) I've been holding my tongue lately, trying not to Bash The Blissninnies too much, so I'm happy to see that I'm not the only person here aware of the Bliss- ninnynessitude. My first reaction at seeing and browsing through the book that Dick Mays touted here last night: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/762052/9b1419ba5b183eccd85c71ef13b14e78 was that for $29.95 ($39.95 for hardback) for a 40-page book, the authors should have included a free gift, your choice of either a bong or a barf bag. I know that I would have required one or both to get through the whole book.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. I can sit in my garden and without realizing what it is that's missing I can hear what bird song actually sounds like, there is a deep silence that seem to go on forever. The NY Times's The Lede blog had a poignant video someone made in Garden Valley in the U.K.--dunno where that is-- of a blackbird singing at dawn, something he apparently never normally hears uninterrupted because of the jets flying over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wytoOvrVCQ I grew up in New York City and was totally inured to the constant sound of airplanes. Where I am now on the Jersey Shore, there's maybe one a week or so that comes over, and it always feels like a big intrusion. So I can sympathize.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. I can sit in my garden and without realizing what it is that's missing I can hear what bird song actually sounds like, there is a deep silence that seem to go on forever. The NY Times's The Lede blog had a poignant video someone made in Garden Valley in the U.K.--dunno where that is-- of a blackbird singing at dawn, something he apparently never normally hears uninterrupted because of the jets flying over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wytoOvrVCQ I grew up in New York City and was totally inured to the constant sound of airplanes. Where I am now on the Jersey Shore, there's maybe one a week or so that comes over, and it always feels like a big intrusion. So I can sympathize. I used to live in an urban setting, near an airport, with regular flight overhead. I sort of liked it -- it drowned out the noise of the winos and crack-whores on the sidewalk below. (only half kidding, well maybe 3/4s -- but definately an element of truth (for once in my postings)). I wonder how the ducks and geese and other birds feel in the vacinity of Heathrow. They may be going what ever happened to that wounderous song of the humans? I so miss its tranquil drone and the patterns of its songs and calls. Please neighbor bird, sign my petition to create a protected human sactuary so we can once again hear the sweet wonderous sound of the human birds. Humans are part of nature. Technology is part of humans' nature. Ergo the creatures hatched from human nature -- are part of nature. I just love the smell of fresh laid asphalt in the morning. It smells like .. like Victory
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.
tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. I can sit in my garden and without realizing what it is that's missing I can hear what bird song actually sounds like, there is a deep silence that seem to go on forever. The NY Times's The Lede blog had a poignant video someone made in Garden Valley in the U.K.--dunno where that is-- of a blackbird singing at dawn, something he apparently never normally hears uninterrupted because of the jets flying over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wytoOvrVCQ I grew up in New York City and was totally inured to the constant sound of airplanes. Where I am now on the Jersey Shore, there's maybe one a week or so that comes over, and it always feels like a big intrusion. So I can sympathize. I used to live in an urban setting, near an airport, with regular flight overhead. I sort of liked it -- it drowned out the noise of the winos and crack-whores on the sidewalk below. (only half kidding, well maybe 3/4s -- but definately an element of truth (for once in my postings)). I wonder how the ducks and geese and other birds feel in the vacinity of Heathrow. They may be going what ever happened to that wounderous song of the humans? I so miss its tranquil drone and the patterns of its songs and calls. Please neighbor bird, sign my petition to create a protected human sactuary so we can once again hear the sweet wonderous sound of the human birds. Humans are part of nature. Technology is part of humans' nature. Ergo the creatures hatched from human nature -- are part of nature. I just love the smell of fresh laid asphalt in the morning. It smells like .. like Victory I have a municipal airport nearby. When I moved here it was not very busy. I mainly housed private planes and a helicopter school. There had been some attempts by regional airlines to use the airport but those were generally rejected by the community mainly because years ago a private plane taking off from the field and losing power crashed into the nearby shopping mall at Christmas time killing some folks (a national news story that day). About a year after 9-11 though I started noticing a lot of helicopter traffic overhead. I thought it was DHS going over the top. But after a while I also realized there was an increase in private jet traffic. So what I've figured is that due to a lot of restrictions at our three area large airports corporate jets have been moved to this field and those helicopters (which go right over my house since they follow the nearby freeway) are ferrying overpaid corporate bigwigs to and from the corporate jet to corporate headquarters probably in San Francisco.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.
Used to live in Vegas.Constant air traffic, planes, helicoptors, be they police, with beams,TV news, or for pleasure helicoptor rides, and the hospital helicoptors. live in Iowa now. My kids exclaim, oh, there's plane- like it's a really big amazing thing when we go into the cities here. I hear the birds, and think, how amazing this place is...God made a beautiful place here.I never knew a place like this still existed. i like it so much better than the city;that being all i knew for 30 years. Cities promote monkey mind. Little itty bitty towns have peace and bliss that promotes serenity. My opinion.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Look on the bright side.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, m 13 meowthirt...@... wrote: Cities promote monkey mind. Little itty bitty towns have peace and bliss that promotes serenity. My opinion. Oh yea. This is definitely the case. How one raises kids etc. has nothing to do with it. Itty bitty towns are just magical, idyllic, paradise - almost entirely devoid of problems. (?)
