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Summer Voices
They are signs of life, exuberance, and hope to me. How about to you?
Cultures are the expression of people’s lifestyles. And lifestyles are our daily activities. Our daily activities are different in different seasons and in different geographical locations. So, the activities in the Northern Hemisphere, hence the United States, are so different from those in the geographical location of the temperate zones because the weather conditions in the different seasons are different.
The weather in the US is hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. People are more active, mobile and exuberant in the summer season, and they are quite restricted, cold, and dormant in the winter. So, their activities and the voices that are heard as a result of those activities also dramatically change as the seasons change.
The winter voices are heard much in the home. Because the outside is cold and quiet, one would hear only those voices from the heater, the refrigerator, the vacuum cleaner, the TV, and the like. The only voice one could hear from outside would be the noise made by the heavy traffic on the streets. Traffic is much busier in the winter because everybody is driving vehicles as the snowy cold weather does not permit biking or walking.
Winter, as I have described earlier in this book, is a season when not only the weather cools down, but…
