The Good Earth. (This story is less than 500 words for those with Attention Defecit Disorder.... surely typing ADD would have been easier?) (434 hits)
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Submitted by Beano (View user info) at 2006-08-24 07:27:41 EDT
As a child the Earth used to speak to me. It's true.
I'd happily walk alone down to the riverbank so that I could sit and watch the fish or the reeds dancing in the crystal fluid that slowly flowed below my feet, just out of reach. The river life announcing it's presence with chirps or quacks.
I'd wander along the back, and down to the brook flowing off at an angle, gushing and whirring wondering to myself how this syrupy looking calm from above could turn into such a loud and violent torrent. The spray from the tumbling and turning water cooling the air.
I could spend many an hour in the English sunshine with the unassuming heat warming my back as I sat by the railway tracks waiting for a vibration that told me a new sound was on its way.
Then I would hurriedly step back in awe or would scurry to the tunnel that took a stream under the tracks, either would reward me with acoustic pleasures that no amount of time can erode.
I didn't really have to go far for my rewards either, in my parents back garden the voices from the football field over the back drifted on the breeze and tickled my ears, mostly indistinguishable but the odd word making the distance in one piece.
As I rode my bicycle out front of the house I'd get a rhythmic drumming as the knobbly tires of my BMX coupled with the hypnotic clicking of my chain played wonders with my senses.
We were privileged with living close (but not too close) to an airport that over the years increased its traffic. To be laying on your back in a field looking into the sky and hear the mechanical echoic, almost surrounding sound of unknown people going on their holidays was bliss hardly rivalled.
Next time you are out, be it in urban chaos or tranquillity I urge to you listen closer to the good Earth as she chats and discusses with the multitude of people she loves.
You shouldn't have to strain to hear it.
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2008-07-26 12:48:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by maf54 (user info) at 2008-05-14 05:00:36 EDT (#)
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Just to counter what that idiot Director did to you.
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2008-05-13 17:45:30 EDT (#)
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Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2006-08-30 22:39:10 EDT (#)
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We should totally concrete Berty.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2006-08-30 22:28:19 EDT (#)
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You are officially invited to D-Prime Madness III: http://www.ubersite.com/m/92455 (although anyone CAN join.)
Submitted by Stogie (user info) at 2006-08-24 17:46:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-08-24 08:46:09 EDT (#)
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nice
Submitted by The_Mighty_Badger (user info) at 2006-08-24 08:26:47 EDT (#)
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Hmm, when you say it like that...
Submitted by JMG114 (user info) at 2006-08-24 08:23:47 EDT (#)
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Lovely.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-08-24 08:03:28 EDT (#)
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Submitted by The_Mighty_Badger (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:50:09 (#)
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Submitted by darko (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:41:50 (#)
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+2 honesty
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Submitted by The_Mighty_Badger (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:32:28 (#)
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'I could spend many an hour in the English sunshine'
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LIAR!
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He is clearly a liar Darko...
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I think it's a truth to say that the English summer times lasts for 'many an hour'.
Submitted by The_Mighty_Badger (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:50:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by darko (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:41:50 (#)
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+2 honesty
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Submitted by The_Mighty_Badger (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:32:28 (#)
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'I could spend many an hour in the English sunshine'
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LIAR!
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He is clearly a liar Darko...
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:41:50 EDT (#)
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+2 honesty
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:41:33 EDT (#)
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We should totally concrete the planet.
Submitted by The_Mighty_Badger (user info) at 2006-08-24 07:32:28 EDT (#)
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'I could spend many an hour in the English sunshine'
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LIAR!