Stand or sit really still outside at night and just listen. What you’ll hear depends on where you live, but I listen to the crickets, cicadas, and frogs. You can hear them humming back and forth, in and out of tune.
When is the last time you sat down outside and watched some bugs? They’re small and beautiful and make the world go round. Some of my favorite childhood memories include turning over rocks in the desert, looking for centipedes and scorpions with my dad. I highly recommend watching some bugs go about their day; bees and ants are especially enthralling.
There were some loud ass frogs living in my backyard for a while and they would drive my mom crazy with their ribbiting at night. so now even hearing crickets at night takes me through a ratatouille-proustian flashback. Proustian Frogs… new band name? Probably not
