As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

"As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" – I don’t think there is a meaningful translation for this pun. I am assuming that it’s simply toying with the names of the Texan town Wichita Falls and the nearby Wichita River. I could be wrong...

The view from my office window is interesting, in a "principles of turn of the century industrial design"-kind of way. There is the stark concrete surface of the inner Cummings Center facade combined with distant plain roofs and fronts of single and multi family homes embedded in trees. However, more importantly, at times there are sounds, beautiful sounds! Sometimes, in the morning you can hear the distant playing and screaming of children echoing from a downstairs childcare facility. The sounds resemble exactly what Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays captured on their marvelous record As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls at the end of the title song. Beautiful!