Fort Wayne Indiana is only two hours south of where I spent most of my life. I only saw an occasional cicada in all my years up there. After I moved here, while walking to the store that summer, I heard this buzzing sound that would come and go. I thought it was the electrical lines. But no, it was a tree full of cicadas. There are a lot of trees full of them, it’s really most bizarre. No 16 year cicadas here, they’re here every summer. I’ve gotten used to it and think it’s pretty cool now.
What made me bring up cicadas in December? Because I have had the worst tinnitus for the last couple of weeks and that’s just what it sounds like. I have a tree full of cicadas in my head 
While I don’t mind them in the trees, having them in my head is getting pretty old. I wish tinnitus was as curable as having winter come and they disappear.
I don’t know if it’s my allergies, which are still acting up in spite of the fact that we’ve had a frost (not to mention snow). Or does it have to do with my migraines? They are getting more persistant. Maybe my shunt is malfunctioning and I have increased internal cranial pressure….naw, even when I did, I didn’t have cicadas in my head. Yet another thing to learn to live with I suppose and really it’s a lot easier to take than the migraines.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. ~ Buddha
