A Life of Wires
Wires
Wired
Wiry
Wiring
Numerous connotations can be extrapolated from those four words. The noun form is the one that best represents my life in audio. I have been surrounded by miles of wires in my work life. Cables, coils, lines, strands, threads, and leads (as they are called in the U.K.) permeate my being. It is not lost on me that our entire insides are made up of a wiring of the veinous and arterial type without which we would cease to exist.
A wire can also be a message in the form of the antiquated telegram or telegraph though this term has not continued forth in the life of texts and messaging in our smartphones. “Wireless” exists as a term that many hold dear though I loathe it because no one really knows what happens to our bodies and more importantly our brains when we use a Bluetooth headset, for example. It’s wireless and convenient, but what are all those invisible zeros and ones doing to our inner ear which is connected directly to the brain? I shudder to think.
“Wired” (adjective) connotes something altogether different though its dictionary definition means cabled, lined, hooked up, connected, circuited. When someone is “wired” (slang) it means they are excited, speedy even edgy. If you work any sort of law enforcement, it can also mean wearing a “wire” which is a recording device hidden somewhere on the body.
Barbed-wire signifies “stay away” and it is something that gives me shivers knowing that there are many people near our southern border who wish to gain entry to enjoy a life that many of us lead here in the United States. They wish for freedom and to bring their children somewhere safe. They are exactly as our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents once were when they, too, escaped a life somewhere else to call America home. They were given opportunity. Why on earth would any of us as descendants of immigrants (or perhaps an immigrant now) wish to deny others so vehemently? The barbed-wire a top “the wall” tells them they are not wanted. It crushes my soul.
A wiry person is lean and sinewy. There is something about them that resembles a wire in its stiffness. Many wiry people I know also seem wired all of the time. They don’t seem comfortable in their skin. Perhaps all of those veins and arteries produce in them an overflux of circuiting? “Too much flow today, Mary? Perhaps a second cup of tea is not the best idea.”
Wiring can be an excellent career for many as in the fields of electrical engineering, computer networking, and audio in both live and recording studio. The ability to coil a cable properly lands a student of audio a well-paying job as they learn their way up the wire to better positions that utilize the wires that are coiled by others. I am most impressed by people who can claim: “I wired my house and office.”
And with these pictures, I shall terminate this wire.
the light plays on the panes so beautifully.
I wait calmly and thank the universe every day for this life and the beauty that I see before me each day.
Image borrowed from 
Shinrin-yoku
