{"id":788,"date":"2013-06-23T21:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-06-23T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T04:23:45","slug":"a-quiet-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/a-quiet-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"A quiet interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever my mom visits from San Francisco, she comments on how quiet it is in the suburbs where I live. In the wee hours of the morning, when the bats go home and the birds begin to sing, I can still hear the occasional car on the freeway, about a half mile away. Come morning, there isn&#8217;t a single day when I don&#8217;t hear construction (six houses are going up near me) or a leaf blower or power mower.<\/p>\n<p>If I was wealthy and powerful, I&#8217;d find a way to create a couple days a year when no power tools were used. If you want to mow, use a push mower. A broom works instead of a leaf blower. I think our world is polluted with sound and our minds never get to rest in quiet.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Sharon has a farm up in Duvall, east of Seattle. Up there, you don&#8217;t hear crows &#8212; too far from the city. On nights I&#8217;ve slept there, the sound of a plane overhead seems out of place.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want an absence of sound &#8212; there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5899502\/the-quietest-place-on-earth-will-drive-you-insane-within-45-minutes\">a place where you can achieve that<\/a>, and apparently, it will drive you mad. But I would like to hear the world without machines once in a while. There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/onesquareinch.org\/\">place <\/a>here in Washington State that would do &#8212; in the Olympic National Park. I wish it was bigger than a square inch, though, and I wish we all had access to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecorazzi.com\/2012\/04\/09\/the-10-quietest-places-in-the-united-states\/\">something like<\/a> that a couple times a year. Or a month.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you do for quiet? Or do you avoid it at all costs?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever my mom visits from San Francisco, she comments on how quiet it is in the suburbs where I live. In the wee hours of the morning, when the bats go home and the birds begin to sing, I can still hear the occasional car on the freeway, about a half mile away. 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