{"id":6902,"date":"2016-02-15T07:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6902"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:40:04","slug":"do-you-hear-the-birds-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/do-you-hear-the-birds-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"do you hear the birds talking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"birdman4\"I do because I am listening to Noisli<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Long ago, I used to listen to language learning lessons while doing my daily work.\u00a0 Then, the daily work started demanding a little more of my cognitive abilities and I switched to listening to music.\u00a0 Now, I can only manage chamber music in the background because excess input, along with all the other stuff I’m staring at-reading-writing-adding, breaks my head.<\/p>\n

My initial method for bringing a little serenity to my desk environment was to make sure my desktop backgrounds were all simple and expansive nature, like a field of flowers or the interlacing branches of a tree.\u00a0 I can’t remember where I read about it first, but this article:\u00a0 “How Nature Resets Our Minds and Bodies”<\/a> explains how looking on nature alleviates stress and focuses attention.\u00a0 I also don’t know if the photographic projections of nature on my computer screen are any real type of stand in; time will tell.<\/p>\n

In addition to the visuals, I have added some ambient nature noises to my day.\u00a0\u00a0 Noisli<\/a> is my number one right now, but I have also scoped out the nature sounds at ambient-mixer<\/a> and the simplicity of iSerenity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I do because I am listening to Noisli. Long ago, I used to listen to language learning lessons while doing my daily work.\u00a0 Then, the daily work started demanding a little more of my cognitive abilities and I switched to listening to music.\u00a0 Now, I can only manage chamber music in the background because… Continue reading do you hear the birds talking?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[271,178],"class_list":["post-6902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-birds","tag-ranting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6317,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/national-jukebox-loc-gov\/","url_meta":{"origin":6902,"position":0},"title":"National Jukebox LOC.gov","author":"leems","date":"August 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I was fishing around in the 78RPMs and Cylinder Recordings at the Internet Archive, finding wonderful things, when I found some really poorly preserved recordings of really wonderful songs.\u00a0 Searching for a better copy lead me to the Library of Congress National Jukebox: National Jukebox historical recordings from the Library\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5782,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/wildlife\/","url_meta":{"origin":6902,"position":1},"title":"Wildlife","author":"leems","date":"January 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Living on a lake in Florida has turned me into a bird watcher.\u00a0 I mean, the things are everywhere...on cars, in parking lots, crossing the road during heavy traffic.\u00a0 I don't need a lake, but having a lake means I get to see birds I wouldn't normally.\u00a0 Like this stork\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"010","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/010-600x450.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/010-600x450.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/010-600x450.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5647,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/03\/14\/owls\/","url_meta":{"origin":6902,"position":2},"title":"Owls","author":"leems","date":"March 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"One early morning, after it had been raining quite a bit, we drove by a puddle and two stocky little birds flew out of it.\u00a0 It happened so fast, but I was sure they were owls. 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