For once, it didn't feel quite right. Probably because it rained last night. I woke up several times in the night to lightning flooding the room, and the sounds of thunder and of rain hitting the house. Kind of gave storm sounds a 'been there/done' that feeling.
I thought I'd rather find a 'sunny-morning-after-a-storm cafe' to write in, instead of my usual 'rainy-afternoon-cafe'.
First I turned on the 'cafe' chatter and clatter' sounds...very low. The quiet hubbub part still felt right. But I was at a loss for the sound of a sunny morning cafe. If I had a smell-feature app (Scentili ?) I'd have the smells of wet dirt, rain, bacon, and coffee wafting through the room.
Since I just have the sounds option I tried to find something that would set the sunny morning vibe. No luck. I moved on to YouTube sound effects. There was a recording of 'sunny day birds singing". It was nice, except in the background was the sound of planes flying over, or wind, or maybe it was the rumbling of a distant rock quarry. I wasn't sure, but it wasn't nice. I tried several, and finally got to a relaxing mountain meadow that had the right sounds of distant birds chirping...without the disturbing sound effects of their habitats potentially being destroyed around them.
What I couldn't find was something I realize doesn't have an actual sound: The Sound of Sunshine. I guess that's obvious, but I imagined I'd find some sort of low pulsar-ish sound. A beaming sort of sound. Kind of a gentle 'waaaaahhh wah wahhh', if you see (hear) what I mean.
In the end I decided I didn't need any virtual reality to enhance my writing space. It was, after all an actual 'sunny morning after a big thunderstorm', so ya know, I just went with the reality of the moment, for once.
Well, I kept the coffee shop sounds. No need to throw the baby out with the...rainwater.
Maybe it's just the sound of that phrase: the sound of sunshine*. I'm in love with. It's like the 'Sound of Silence', with the beautiful and poetic alliteration I love, yet so much, ya know: sunnier.
Anyway, I hope today all of your vibes are happy and they have fun soundtracks to go with them. Have a great sunshiny-day!
* Note from the day after I wrote this:
So I wrote this post yesterday. Some hours later I noticed I'd been humming a little tune all afternoon. What's that song? (My Conscious Self said to my Unconscious Song-
Stylist Self.) "Oh. Let me sing it for you again: "Here I am...waiting for the storm to
pass me by, and that's the sound of sunshine coming down!"
I didn't come up with that line...I stole it. I kept thinking it was a nice turn of phrase
that I'd brilliantly invented. But I realize I thought it sounded 'right' because I've heard it plays a lot on my exercise music mix.
It's a song called (duh on me): "The Sound of Sunshine" by Michael Franti and
Spearhead. YouTube it. It's very good. (Sorry Michael and Spearhead...I didn't
intentionally swipe your line.)
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