November 22, 2009
UTNE READER

The Listening Cure

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July / August 2005
Karen Olson Utne magazine 
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The brakes of a wholesale grocer truck. French pop music from a sidewalk restaurant. The jangle of a dog's leash. Crows cawing. Horns honking. Flip-flops. Bicycle spokes. Singing. The voices of taxi drivers passionately discussing politics. The quiet footsteps of a man with a rabbit riding on his shoulder. Basketballs bouncing. Waves crashing. Plastic bags crinkling in the wind. The clicks and whirring motors of video cameras. A plane. A helicopter. Gulls screeching. Soles of shoes on concrete, then on asphalt. Keys jangling. Skateboard wheels. A cell phone, then another.

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The closer I listened, the more vibrant and full and alive the world seemed. I laughed when a bald woman with a heart tattoo on the back of her head, eating an ice cream cone, walked by and said to her companion, 'This place is really lively at night.'

We hope this issue of the magazine will help you listen to the music of the world with a renewed sense of wonder.

WE'RE WISHING a fond farewell to two members of our art staff. Art director Kristi Anderson has been with Utne on and off since 1990 and is leaving to pursue her own business. Assistant art director Jennifer Kenix is moving to Christchurch, New Zealand. We're sorry we won't get to spend our days with them anymore, but we're pleased to know that others will get to experience the beauty and joy and insight they both bring to the world.

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