Jaclyn posted: " As the mercury drops, I'm remembering more and more how perfectly winter hats hold earbuds in ears - a nice little side benefit to knitwear. Here's a selection of some of my fall listening highlights: Lovely War, by Julie Berry. Still really enj" covered in flour
As the mercury drops, I'm remembering more and more how perfectly winter hats hold earbuds in ears - a nice little side benefit to knitwear. Here's a selection of some of my fall listening highlights:
Lovely War, by Julie Berry. Still really enjoying my routine of switching between listening to an audiobook, then catching up on my podcatcher - I listened to Lovely War on long neighborhood walks and commutes between October and November. It's a bit of a tome and the audiobook was nearly 12 hours, even on 1.1 speed (over 13 if you listened on regular speed, but I've found 1.1 sounds more conversational to me and keeps my listening pace where I like it). I really enjoyed it, but did bog down occasionally and have to take breaks for more bite-sized content via Apple Podcasts.
Podcasts - always. Speaking of which, that long audiobook gave me plenty of time to stack up a whole library's worth of recent episodes in my podcatcher. Since wrapping up Lovely War I've been gradually working my way through these, and also sprinkling in some back holiday content from The Mom Hour, my favorite parenting podcast (actually the only parenting podcast I can bear to listen to).
Music - especially '90s jams. The kids - especially Nugget - prefer to listen to music in the car and will complain if I put on a podcast or audiobook, so we're always scrolling through my iTunes library. Recently, Nugget got the beginnings of his R.E.M. education. But more than anything else, lately, I've been listening to '90s music - I think it's the Peloton causing this blast from the past. I did a few "90s rock rides" and found myself shouting "I love this song!" and singing along to the Red Hot Chili Peppers way more than I would have expected. Especially when Robin Arzon is choosing the playlist, I just can't get enough. It's like having the best part of high school back, without all the drama.
The sounds of nature. A few weeks ago, the kids were miraculously quiet for a couple of moments on a hike and we got to actually hear the forest around us - the whistling of wind in the trees, the soft rushing of the Potomac river on its banks just a few feet away, the scurrying of a small animal in the underbrush. It was such an unexpected joy - like our own little Autumnwatch mindful moment - that Nugget was inspired to play a game of "I hear with my little ear" all the way back to the car and we walked along listening to the sounds of the woods and whispering our observations to each other. It was, unsurprisingly, lovely.
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