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| The 2024 blog word-cloud |
As 2024 finishes up, I've been looking back on the year’s journey—its silences, its sounds, and the moments in between. Writing this blog has been a rewarding practice, a space for reflection and connection. As I noted earlier this week, it’s been a way to map the contours of my own thoughts, from the micro to the macro.
Today’s post is a pause, a chance to look at the bigger picture. Above, you’ll find the word cloud of themes from this fall (as derived from post tags). It’s fun to see how words – like echoes – pattern the ways we think about things. Earlids, eh? And cemeteries. And a bit of metacognitive work.
For nerds among us (and who doesn’t have a bit of nerdery?), here are the words that echoed most strongly across my Fall contributions, by frequency:
- Silence
- soundscape
- Thalbach, eco-acoustical
- sound, nature
- beauty, earlids, hearing loss, writing strategies, monastic, Ovid
- cemeteries, urban, bird song
An interesting list. Ovid's a bit of a surprise. And the obvious omission is "music," which gives me something concrete to do this Spring. Places to go, things to write about ... Not a bad ending to the year!
I hope that your 2024 has been all you had hoped, and wish you a 2025 rich in sounds and in silences. May YOUR acoustical moments bring you to spaces of beauty, joy, and connectedness.
