The Magic of Listening

A new book reminds us of the pleasures of reconnecting with ordinary sound

Photo by Mohammad Metri on Unsplash

I recently spent a few days by myself at a cabin rented out by the U.S. Forest Service. I try to do this a couple of times a year — there’s no internet or mobile phone service (no electricity, in fact), and while these retreats started out as a means to catch up on offline reading and writing work, they’ve turned into something more: a way of…