There was the ever-present noise of temples, scooters and, soon, colleagues, who lived in similar houses so close to ours that we could hear conversations, phones, coughs.
In Panama City, we continue to struggle in the face of the ever-present noise and mess of the never-ending construction in this boom town.
The whole VHS-revivalism aesthetic is pretty worn out in 2015, but every so often you hear or see something that can't help but suck you into a vortex of mangled tape and worn out, washed out pastels mingling with the ever present danger of white noise interference and mangled letterboxes.
Its noise is ever present, in rivers and waterfalls, the soft squelch of mud and the torrent of sudden rain.
It's hard to listen internally when the noise outside is ever present and overpowering.
And like many of us, it can be ever-present background noise in our lives, and the lives of those who love us.
There are lulls for hours, though the noise of drones is ever present.
Danger, however, is ever present.
The seismic risk is ever present.
