Unlike the wide blue skies brushed with white clouds drifting over deep teal blue water, metallic boxes of white, black or brushed metal are stocked with food or stuffed with clothes.Unlike the weather that changes at it’s whim, buttons and panels and touch pads are ours to command.
Then we listen and respond to selected beeps and buzzes and whirrs of timers and motors.
Appliances that wash and dry, cook and clean.
If the sound is different, there is meaning in it’s tone.
The fine aroma of a cooking meal means good food!
A shrill whistle means it’s time to make the tea.
A bzzbzzbzz means it’s time to get up.
Sounds of swirling water means pipes are clear in kitchen and bathroom.
Machines communicate with us in foreign tongues only the owner, and repair man, seem to understand.
Houses vibrate with all the goings on of our conveniences while we thank or curse them.
“There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.”
~ Mary Martin
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