TT: Sounds I like

• Rain dripping from the trees long after the sun comes out
• The sheep in the meadow next to my studio
• Ping-pong games in Colony Hall
• The raucous clang of the dinner bell
• A dog barking in the middle distance, just far away enough for the sound to be swaddled in a haze of echo
• The small, precise, dryly amused voice of one of my fellow colonists
• The quiet clunk that my external hard drive makes as it warms up
• Leontyne Price’s recording of Samuel Barber’s “St. Ita’s Vision,” played on tiny travel speakers hooked up to my laptop at a moment of flagging inspiration
• The not-quite-silence of a soft summer afternoon