Did you know there's a word for the sound of snowflakes?
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Did you know there’s a word in Japanese for the silence of snow?
It’s shinshin and alludes to the absence of sound that was once there before.
Cover by Eron Haubert Additional photos by Dianne Bertini, Heather Reardon, Kimberly Lebron, Davida Kales, Mattie May, Shea Cochran, Ruth Nielsen
In our jacked up, noise-polluted, busy as all get-out world, have you ever contemplated the sound of silence? It's a rare thing, these days?
Even in my quiet house out in the country with very few neighbors, there is still the hum of multiple appliances buzzing in the background. But when the power goes out I notice that startling absence of white noise. And it's lovely.
Snow is nature’s best sound absorber.
The space between flakes once they’ve settled on the ground perfectly muffle the decibels of daily life.
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