listening to readings

Reading, what a pleasure. . . The way a book can transport, mesmerise, have you groggy-eyed at morning from an all-night feast. Books are a real sanctuary. I’m even in a book club!!  You may laugh at this last assertion, but when I revealed this to a friend the other day, her tweet came back as “You teach yoga, you’re in a book club, you’re so bohemian! Or gay…?” I get this a lot, good thing I didn’t tell her about my sewing classes, I would have been sunk!!

I’m also really into Audio books. I get them from the Listener’s Library. I’ve often been accused of being somehow at fault or of cheating, but traffic has never been the same. Sometimes I’m even late to work because I’m sitting in the car park listening to some riveting part of the story that can’t wait until the trip back home. I think it’s unfair to feel guilty for listening to your favourite stories, after all, the first stories we ever heard were from mouth to ear and for most of us indigenous Africans, that is still how we learnt the most powerful of our childhood stories.  You could even argue, that first came the word and it’s reverberations permeate reality to this day. There is power in the oral story telling tradition. For me it has revealed the flow of sentences and the imagery that follows in their wake.

So today, when I was spending another distracted day at the office looking for widgets for the blog, I thought I must find a “What am I reading” widget. I failed to find one. If you have any suggestions please tell me. In thinking about the widget, I decided to be true to what I really do. I had to do a bit of HTML coding but you will now find not only the “What am I reading” section, but also “What am I listening to”.

Don’t judge me now. Think of it as the upliftment of the other senses. Modern society is so dominated by the two receptors at the front of our heads, let’s give a chance to the others.