September Recommendation: Listening

Finding the quiet in the noise around you.

In my teens, I always had to have a CD or tape playing — in the car, in the dorm room, working in a coffee shop or the library, on a Sony Discman walking around New York — my life needed a soundtrack.

In my mid-20s, that soundtrack changed to radio. Determined to make it in the field, I listened to everything on the public radio station, as well as Brav…